Shellacking

3 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  shellac
       n 1: lac purified by heating and filtering; usually in thin
            orange or yellow flakes but sometimes bleached white
       2: a thin varnish made by dissolving lac in ethanol; used to
          finish wood [syn: {shellac varnish}]
       v : cover with shellac; "She wanted to shellac the desk to


           protect it from water spots"
       [also: {shellacking}, {shellacked}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  shellacking
       See {shellac}

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  38 Moby Thesaurus words for "shellacking":
     beating, calcimining, clobbering, coating, covering,
     crushing defeat, debacle, decisive defeat, defeasance, drubbing,
     enameling, fresco, gilding, glazing, glossing, japanning, licking,
     no contest, overthrow, overwhelming defeat, painting, pasting,
     priming, rout, smashing defeat, smearing, staining, stippling,
     total defeat, trouncing, undercoating, utter defeat, vanquishment,
     varnishing, whipping, whitewash, whitewashing, whopping