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lacing, vbl. n.|ˈleɪsɪŋ|
[f. lace v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of the vb. lace, in various senses.
c1386Chaucer Knt.'s T. 1646 Gigginge of sheeldes, with layneres lacinge. 1577Fenton Gold. Ep. 13 To breake your fast standing and whilest your armour is in laceing. 1599Life Sir T. More in Wordsworth Eccl. Biog. (1853) II. 114 What paines she took..with lacinge in of her bodie. 1630J. Taylor (Water P.) Wks. ii. 248/2 For cutting, edging, stiffning, and for lacing. 1821Byron Juan iv. lxxxvi. (MS.), To help the ladies in their dress and lacing. 1871Figure Training 75 The lace..at the first lacing was moderately tight. 1888Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin., Lacing, the union by means of laces of the ends of leather belting used in driving machines. 1893H. Vizetelly Glances Back I. ii. 41 The sound lacing which the young rascal should inevitably receive.
2. concr. or quasi-concr.
a. That which laces or fastens; a fastening, tie; a shoe-string.
b. Ornamental braiding for men's clothes (cf. lace n. 5).
c. The coloured border on the petal of a flower; also, a similar marking on the feathers of birds.
d. A small quantity of spirits mingled with some beverage.
a.a1400Sir Perc. 744 He ne couthe never fynd righte The lacynge of his wede. c1400Apol. Lollards 34 Neþer is no man worþi to opun þe lasing of His scho. 1591R. Percival Sp. Dict., Abrochadura, lacing of a coate, strictura. 1860H. Stuart Seaman's Catech. 48 Studding sails are generally brought to with a lacing. 1881Confess. Frivolous Girl 120 Canvas shoes with colored lacings.
b.1593Rotherham Feoffee's Acc. 24 Paid..for fowertene yeardes of lacing,..[etc.] 2s. 10d. 1611Cotgr., Passement,..a lace, or lacing. 1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Quality (1808) I. 27 He..began to cut, and rip, and rend away the lacings of his suit, without sparing cloth or seam. 1897Westm. Gaz. 9 Nov. 3/2 The half-state uniforms are made of royal blue cloth, with gold lacings.
c.1850Beck's Florist 144 Pinks whose delicate lacings are spangled with the early dew. 1882Garden 25 Mar. 202/1 [The] colour and lacing [of a Gold-laced Polyanthus].
d.1862Athenæum 27 Sept. 396 So long as it [water] be..united with a proper ‘lacing’ of wine or brandy.
3. In various technical uses:
a. Bridge-building. (See quot. 1885.)
b. Mining. (See quot. 1883.)
c. Math. A complex of three or more endless cords so arranged that they cannot be separated, though no two are interlinked.
d. Naut. and Ship-building. (See quots. c 1850 and 1867.)
e. Bookbinding (see quots. a 1877 and 1961, and lace v. 4 b).
c1850Rudim. Navig. (Weale) 128 Lacing, one of the principal pieces that compose the knee of the head, which runs up to the top of the hair bracket, and to which the figure and rails of the head are secured. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Lacing, rope or cord used to lace a sail to a gaff, or a bonnet to a sail. a1877Knight Dict. Mech. II. 1244/1 Lacing,..securing the book to the sides by carrying the bands or slips through perforations in the boards. 1883Gresley Gloss. Coal Mining, Lacing, 1. timbers placed across the tops of bars or caps to secure the roof between the gears. 2. Strips or light bars of wrought iron bent over at the ends and wedged in tight between the bars and the roof. 1885Waddell Syst. Iron Railr. Bridges Japan 246 Lacing, a system of bars, not intersecting each other at the middle, used to connect the two channels of a strut in order to make them act as one member. 1961T. Landau Encycl. Librarianship (ed. 2) 189/1 Lacing-in, in hand-binding, in the ‘extra’ style, the method of attaching boards to the sewing cords, which are laced through holes in the boards.
4. attrib., as lacing-bar, lacing-silk; lacing course Building, a special course built into an arch or wall in order to bond different parts together and give added strength; lacing-cutter, lacing-hook (see quot. 1884).
1558Richmond. Wills & Invent. (Surtees) 127, iij ounce of lasing silke. 1884Knight Dict. Mech. Suppl., Lacing Cutter (Leather), a knife with a gage, to preserve the width of the strip. Lacing Hook (Boot), hooks on the margins of the upper, over which a lace is caught side by side alternately to close the opening of the shoe. 1885Waddell Syst. Iron Railr. Bridges Japan 246 Lacing Bar, a bar belonging to a system of lacing. 1886H. C. Seddon Builder's Work i. 66 It is better..to build the arch in half-brick rings, with a few bonding or lacing courses built in at intervals, to tie the separate rings together. 1899Notes on Building Construction (rev. ed.) I. iii. 46 Walls such as those built with flints, or other small stones,..are frequently strengthened by building in with them lacing courses, consisting of horizontal bands either of ashlar, coursed rubble, or brickwork. 1947R. Greenhalgh Mod. Building Construction I. 229/1 In arches of very wide span, the different rings are sometimes bonded to each other by inserting courses of stretchers in the depth of the arch at intervals. These courses are termed lacing courses. |