1835. HALIBURTON (‘Sam Slick’), The Clockmaker, 1. xii. ‘They put me in mind of a great big hulk of a horse in a cart, that won’t put his shoulder to the collar at all for all the LAMBASTIN’ in the world.’
1838. J. C. NEAL, Charcoal Sketches, ii. 78, ‘A Pair of Slippers.’ ‘I can’t hide’ [says a braggadoccio], ‘when anybody owes me a LAMBASTING.’
1883. W. C. RUSSELL, Sailors’ Language, s.v. LAMBUSTING, a rope’s-ending.
