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lacing
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?le?s??/
Verb
lacing
- present participle of lace
Noun
lacing (plural lacings)
- That with which something is laced.
- A light lacing of rum goes into the cake batter.
- The tied or threaded laces that form a netlike pattern.
- A beating as punishment; a hiding.
- 1964, Tom Pyle, Beth Day Romulo, Pocantico: Fifty Years on the Rockefeller Domain (page 168)
- The Nelson family chauffeur, Ed, told me that Steven was missing. Ed was angry that the kid had run off, and he said when he got his hands on him he was going to give him a good lacing […]
- 1964, Tom Pyle, Beth Day Romulo, Pocantico: Fifty Years on the Rockefeller Domain (page 168)
- (mining) Lagging, or cross-pieces placed to prevent ore from falling into a passage.
- (bookbinding) The cords by which the boards of a book are fastened to the back.
- (shipbuilding) The knee of the head, or lace-piece, a piece of compass or knee timber secured to the back of the figurehead.
Translations
See also
- shoelace
Anagrams
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babiche
English
Etymology
First attested around 1800–10. From Canadian French, from Mi'kmaq ápapíj (“cord, thread”), diminutive of ápapi, from Proto-Algonquian *a?lapa·py, *a?lapa·pyi, from *a?lapy- (“net”) + *-a·py (“string”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b??bi??/, /bæ?bi??/
- Hyphenation: ba?biche
Noun
babiche (plural babiches)
- (Canada, US) Thong(s) of rawhide or sinew used as cord, lacing, or webbing, in the manufacture of snowshoes, braided straps and tumplines, fishing and harpoon lines, knit bags, etc.
See also
- Gadacz, René R. (2008). “Babiche”, in the Canadian Encyclopedia.
References
- “babiche” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.
- “babiche” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- “babiche” in The New Oxford American Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2005
French
Etymology
From Mi'kmaq ápapíj (“cord, thread”). See above.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ba.bi?/
Noun
babiche f (plural babiches)
- babiche
Related terms
- babichon
Further reading
- “babiche” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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