Definitions for lacingˈleɪ sɪŋ

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

lac•ingˈleɪ sɪŋ(n.)

  1. the act of one that laces.

    Category: Common Vocabulary

  2. a beating; thrashing.

  3. a small amount of liquor or any other substance added to food or drink.

    Category: Common Vocabulary

  4. a lace used for fastening, as in a shoe.

    Category: Clothing

Origin of lacing:

1350–1400

Princeton's WordNet

  1. lacing(noun)

    a small amount of liquor added to a food or beverage

  2. lace, lacing(noun)

    a cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment)

  3. beating, thrashing, licking, drubbing, lacing, trouncing, whacking(noun)

    the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows

Wiktionary

  1. lacing(Noun)

    That with which something is laced.

    A light lacing of rum goes into the cake batter.

  2. lacing(Noun)

    The tied laces that form a netlike pattern.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Lacing(u)

    of Lace

  2. Lacing(noun)

    the act of securing, fastening, or tightening, with a lace or laces

  3. Lacing(noun)

    a lace; specifically (Mach.), a thong of thin leather for uniting the ends of belts

  4. Lacing(noun)

    a rope or line passing through eyelet holes in the edge of a sail or an awning to attach it to a yard, gaff, etc

  5. Lacing(noun)

    a system of bracing bars, not crossing each other in the middle, connecting the channel bars of a compound strut


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