WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

lashings
    n 1: a large number or amount; "made lots of new friends"; "she
         amassed stacks of newspapers" [syn: tons, dozens,
         heaps, lots, piles, scores, stacks, loads,
         rafts, slews, wads, oodles, gobs, scads,
         lashings]