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ˈlapstone
[f. lap n.1 + stone.]
A stone that shoemakers lay in their laps to beat their leather upon.
1778Love Feast 18 Next, black-thumb'd Jobson..throws his Lap-Stone down. 1794Wolcot (P. Pindar) Ode For. Soldiers, Behold his pretty fingers wax the thread, And now the leather on the lap-stone hole. a1810Tannahill Come hame to Lingels Poems (1846) 143 Come hame to your lap⁓stane, come hame to your last, It's a bonny affair that your family maun fast. 1852Hawthorne Blithedale Rom. I. v. 68 A lapstone, a hammer, a piece of sole-leather, and some waxed ends. |