present participle and gerund of lace
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.
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[…]
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