lacing

1 a small amount of liquor added to a food or beverage

2 a cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment) [syn: lace]

3 the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows [syn: beating, thrashing, licking, drubbing, trouncing, whacking]

English

Verb

lacing

1. present participle of lace

Lace is a lightweight fabric patterned with open holes.

Lace may refer to:

• Shoelace, a thin cord fitted to shoes to keep the shoes in place

In Music:

• Lace (band), a Canadian country music trio
  • Lace (album), the Canadian country music trio's self-titled debut album
• The Lace (Benjamin Orr album), a 1986 album
• Laced (album), a 1999 album by rap-metal group Reveille

Other uses:

• Lace (film), a 1984 TV mini-series, based on a novel of the same name by Shirley Conran
• Lacing (drugs), where one substance has been secretly mixed or added to another
• Liquid air cycle engine (LACE), a type of spacecraft propulsion engine
• Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), an art gallery founded in Los Angeles, California in 1978

See also

• Interlace
• Lacing, a process in wheelbuilding, in which spokes are connected between the hub and the rim

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