Looked at the lashing riders.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Verb (used without object) : He lashed wildly at his attackers. ,to lash out at injustice. ,The coiled snake lashed suddenly.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used with object) : The rain lashed the trees. ,He lashed them on to greater effort. ,She lashed the students with harsh criticism. ,The crocodile lashed its tail.    From Dictionary.com. 

Noun : He received 20 lashes. ,the lash of his sharp tongue.    From Dictionary.com. 

He was painfully shy and found his expression in lashing out at people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Gatiss: My family values] Reference

Perhaps Rahm is conflating these critiques from the left in lashing out at Krguman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Rahm Emanuel Suggests He Agrees Stimulus Package Wasn’t Big Enough] Reference

That the Anglo-Saxon model took a ritual tongue-lashing from the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, was par for the course.    From Wordnik.com.  [Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk] Reference

"His responses could best be characterized as lashing out.".    From Wordnik.com.  [How Two Elections Changed America] Reference

“His responses could best be characterized as lashing out.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Printing: How Two Elections Changed America] Reference

The pointing of a lashing is a thing a sailor is very careful about.    From Wordnik.com.  [The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-1912 — Volume 1] Reference

Sojan met it with sword lashing and axe whining through the air about his head.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elric At The End of Time]

The lashing was the same string or thong we had before used for the duck-traps.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cast Away in the Cold An Old Man's Story of a Young Man's Adventures, as Related by Captain John Hardy, Mariner] Reference

Sojan was still in the thick of it, sword lashing everywhere and dealing death with every stroke.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elric At The End of Time]

The tutor stopped to pivot from the waist, his sword lashing out, and Conan was forced to retreat another step.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan The Warlord]

As sometimes happens, that lit my fuse, and I composed a serious word lashing on the subject ending with a big “Shame on you”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Azalea Earth Day « Fairegarden] Reference

Is it a kind of lashing out because well-constructed lessons hit a soft spot in their self images?.    From Wordnik.com.  [C is for Coursebook (by Lindsay Clandfield) « An A-Z of ELT] Reference

Fig. 176: The Square Cross Shear lashing is a very simple but secure method of passing a lashing which is commonly used.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 13] Reference

M. O'BRIEN: And they're kind of lashing back at "Consumer Reports," which doesn't take advertising, is kind of, you know.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 21, 2006] Reference

Donne - you shouldn't have to suffer any kind of lashing at all ... next time that occurs, you give 'em my name. that oughta shut 'em up.    From Wordnik.com.  [ActiveRain Real Estate Network] Reference

But it's not easy lashing 1.3 billion people into line.    From Wordnik.com.  [All That Glitters...] Reference

(The senator gave Clinton a public tongue-lashing anyway.).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rabbi's Daughter] Reference

The enemy is feeling this pressure and clearly lashing out.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Afghanistan, No Shortage Of Suicide Bombers] Reference

But wary of making himself a target, he prefers lashing the GOP in private.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizen Clinton Up Close] Reference

The skink is lashing his tail — it's flicking back and forth across my wrist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inexpectatus] Reference

INSKEEP: So what happened recently when Jay-Z began lashing out at the music industry?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rapper Feud Mirrors World Politics] Reference

Instead, they exhibit a relentless and extreme pattern of defiance, anger and lashing out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Troubled Souls] Reference

But the government has also ruthlessly quashed dissent and is lashing out at foreign criticism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Editor’s Desk] Reference

Did the White House really try to interfere in the German elections by lashing out at Gerhard Schroeder?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Oval: Bush's European Roadshow] Reference

For ten of them, I either won the appeal or succeeded in having the sentence commuted to lashing by whip.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bernard-Henri Lévy: Interview: Sakineh's Attorney Speaks From Exile] Reference

If Eminem was just a wounded child lashing out at the world around him, he'd be worth one listen at best.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slim Shady Sounds Off] Reference

A lot of times Michael has given the tongue-lashing and the other co-captain has patted guys on the back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Goodbye To The Bulls] Reference

"It's people lashing out at what they think of as TV Arabs," says Hussein Ibish, a spokesman for the committee.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anatomy Of A Hate Crime] Reference

The tongue-lashing was familiar to staffers-including the fusillade of four-letter words-and it got them moving.    From Wordnik.com.  [Testing Ground] Reference

"It is because the regime has begun fighting these terrorists that they have been lashing out in response," he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE SAUDI TRAP] Reference

For his part, the speaker was both agitated and apologetic, simultaneously lashing out at his "enemies" and saying he was sorry.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Trouble With Newt] Reference

Whether the subject is child care or health care, the danger for Blair is that lashing out at the press can look just plain churlish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tony, Cherie And The Nanny] Reference

The miners, still in their soiled work clothes and helmets, retaliated by lashing out at random with rubber truncheons, clubs and fists.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mob Rule In Romania] Reference

During the 1960 campaign, TV newsman Sander Vanocur was smarting from a tongue-lashing by RFK when he ran into JFK outside a restaurant.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Black Robert' Finds A Role] Reference

Quentin had his first memory of Hope a month ago, borne on January's lashing winds — the ones that regularly brought tears to his eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fractured Memories of Hope] Reference

When Tom Daschle's cabinet nomination blew up, sending Washington into a tizzy, he stayed calm and blamed himself instead of lashing out.    From Wordnik.com.  [America’s New Shrink] Reference

"You mustn't be offended," she says sweetly, after lashing out at her husband for his cheapness, his drinking or the loss of their child.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theater Review: 'Long Day's Journey Into Night'] Reference

They collided in the tilting aisle, their blades lashing out and licking against armor, stripping lacquer and squealing as they came apart.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Insult of Warlord Reishi] Reference