Noun : strawberries with lashings of cream.    From Dictionary.com. 

Marc Almond, pretty in lashings of eyeliner decades before his time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cheeseburger Gothic » This way ladies, if you would care to follow me.] Reference

Angela Merkel received tongue lashings from the Chinese leadership for their recent public meetings with the Dalai Lama.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dalai Lama Arrives In Ottawa for Historic Visit] Reference

And for all the verbal lashings from the fans and the media, he stood in there and took it, wide receiver Derrick Mason said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ravens fire Billick after 5-11 season] Reference

Shabab fighters carry out public punishments such as lashings and stonings, conduct training exercises and present themselves as an alternative government.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Tateraq busily cut long lashings from tanned walrus hides.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eternal Maiden] Reference

Once free from the wrist lashings, he liberated his ankles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jack Wright and His Electric Stage; or, Leagued Against the James Boys] Reference

He has probably slipped his lashings and slid down the side.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea] Reference

A rope dragged in the raft's wake, a remnant of the lashings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference

Gladly the boys cut the lashings that bound them to the bails.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference

Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan is used to political lashings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Japanese Prime Minister Slammed By Wife In New Book] Reference

Percy grasped the lashings and was towed along behind his father.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference

He started to cut the lashings recklessly; but she stopped him with a cry.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall] Reference

The attempt had to be given up and the sails secured to the yards by lashings.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference

The blade of his knife slashed through the hemp lashings, and the raft lay clear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference

They secured a rope of leather lashings and placed a noose about the old man's neck.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eternal Maiden] Reference

It is held together by dowels and crossbeams and twisted lashings and supporting props.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference

Spongers return rammer and sponge to place, and assist in securing lashings and breeching.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.] Reference

In other cases (Pl. XXXII) the poles are rigidly held in place by ropes or rawhide lashings.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228] Reference

Salle, he cast off the lashings, and raising the body, they placed it on the pedestal of ice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adrift in the Ice-Fields] Reference

Then other lashings were made while the great aerostat plunged about like a wounded leviathan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls] Reference

Russia and France and Belgium get no lashings of scorn and fury and hatred such as England does!.    From Wordnik.com.  [A War-time Journal, Germany 1914 and German Travel Notes] Reference

He slid it loosely under the sled lashings every morning, thinking that its use could not long be delayed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference

Mort's eyes were bloodshot; they fell upon the carbine under the sled lashings, and lingered there, then wavered.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference

But with the launch of the first high-end hotel here, there are now lashings of luxury on this remote Polynesian island.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hot Spot] Reference

Eliza's wrath and the lashings she could give with her tongue: and he was not alone among those on the Farm in this terror.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heart of Arethusa] Reference

He'd been in the sick bay for treatments of the ulcers on his back gained from five years of frequent lashings as a Rat slave.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Measure of a Man] Reference

Twisting her wrists and ankles in the tight lashings until they bled, it suddenly flashed upon her that she was lashed to the sled.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eternal Maiden] Reference

Expect to leave with a considerable hole in your pocket after lashings of sauerkraut risotto and lobster.tinyurl. com/silkfrankfurt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frankfurt: your next city-break destination] Reference

The natives now bestirred themselves and threw to the captain a large hunting knife and rifle, attached to their long sled lashings.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman who went to Alaska] Reference

It was full grown, probably at least as heavy as she was, and its kicks and powerful tail lashings would be dangerous if it were cornered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hunting the Thylacine] Reference

Miss Ashton was lying on her couch on the poop-deck, with her bird's cage hanging from one of the lashings of the awning, close beside her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Folks (December 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference