Lacing

La′cing

(lā′sĭng)

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Noun.

1.

The act of securing, fastening, or tightening, with a lace or laces.

2.

A lace;

specifically

(Mach.)

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a thong of thin leather for uniting the ends of belts.

3.

(Naut.)

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.

4.

(Bridge Building)

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

Waddell.

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ppr.

Fastening with a string; adorned or trimmed with lace.

lacing

lacing ‎(plural lacings)

That with which something is laced.
A light lacing of rum goes into the cake batter.
The tied 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 […]