2syllables
lacing
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Definitions oflacing
1verb
- To fasten (something) with laces.
- To add alcohol, poison, a drug or anything else potentially harmful to (food or drink).
- To interweave items.
Example: "to lace one's fingers together"
- To interweave the spokes of a bicycle wheel.
- To beat; to lash; to make stripes on.
- To adorn with narrow strips or braids of some decorative material.
Example: "cloth laced with silver"
1noun
- That with which something is laced.
Example: "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.
- Lagging, or cross-pieces placed to prevent ore from falling into a passage.
- The cords by which the boards of a book are fastened to the back.
- The knee of the head, or lace-piece, a piece of compass or knee timber secured to the back of the figurehead.
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