Lacing is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LACING in dictionary:

VERB:
• fasten or tighten (a shoe or garment) by tying the laces
• tighten a laced corset around the waist of
• fasten someone into (a garment) by tightening the laces
• (of a garment or shoe) be fastened by means of laces
• entwine (things, especially fingers) together
• pass a lace or cord through (a hole)
• add an ingredient, especially alcohol, to (a drink or dish) to enhance its flavour or strength
• give (something) a large amount or degree of a feature or quality
NOUN:
• a contrasting marginal band of colour
• a fine open fabric of cotton or silk, made by looping, twisting, or knitting thread in patterns and used especially for trimming garments
• braid used for trimming, especially on military dress uniforms
• a cord or leather strip passed through eyelets or hooks on opposite sides of a shoe or garment and then pulled tight and fastened
• The act of securing, fastening, or tightening, with a lace or laces.
• A lace; specifically (Mach.), a thong of thin leather for uniting the ends of belts.
• 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.
• A system of bracing bars, not crossing each other in the middle, connecting the channel bars of a compound strut.
• a small amount of liquor added to a food or beverage
• a cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment)
• the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to fasten by means of a lace (a cord for drawing together two edges)
• a contrasting marginal band of color

Words related to LACING

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Words that contain LACING

lacings10 placing12 belacing13 enlacing11 inlacing11 placings13 relacing11 solacing11 unlacing11 emplacing16 replacing14 unplacing14 displacing16 misplacing17 necklacing19 outplacing15 preplacing17 interlacing14 necklacings20 commonplacing24

How to use LACING in a sentence

• I once saw this very young lady lacing her stays with the most perfect composure before a negro footman.
• She missed combing her hair, lacing her shoes, tucking her in her bed, and the bright face and little hand when they used to go out for a walk.
• His skin too was intersected by a thousand fine wrinkles, lacing and interlacing, and was all burned, as I have already said, by the sun.
• Tight lacing, began in early childhood, is one of the chief of evils.
• She broke the lacing and had to sit down, take it out of the shoe, tie it, and put it back again.
• We drove past Moie de Bretagne, with the green seas leaping up its fretted sides and lacing them with rushing white threads as they fell.
• The ones lacing the flap leading out of the tent were as hard to undo as if they had been made of iron.
• The girl drooped her head over the lacing of her habit and made no answer.
• They were to be seen with their arms lacing each other in their younger days whenever their occupations permitted their union.
• A strap engages with holes made in the belt, at the back of the holes punched for lacing, the tightening strap being provided with claws or hooks, as shown.
• The stars that twinkled in the sky beyond the lacing boughs were set in his ceiling.
• Except for these lacing courses hydraulic lime mortar should be used for large arches, on account of its slightly accommodating nature.
• The injury wrought by tight lacing is now everywhere understood, and in recent years large waists have become stylish.
• As nothing seemed wrong with it, he was obliged to look further, and finally found the cause of trouble to be a transmitting belt, the worn-out lacing of which had parted.
• Through the cool green lacing of the creeper the sun poured the last of its golden rays into the wide stoop.
• His eyes were directed through the lacing of creeper, his gaze concentrated upon the purple vista of the hills.
• But he shoved it into his pocket and finished lacing the boots.
• On performance nights I never had any thing before going on, and assisted by the aid of tight lacing I could generally manage to squeeze my waist within the compass of 24 inches.
• Without wasting more words, and lacing up his hunting shirt as he went he ran out of the room.
• Care should be taken not to cut the holes too near the edge of the bag lest the lacing pull out.
• Pulling them on again and lacing them to the very top, he proceeded on his way, more easy in his head than under his soles.
• Athos was dressed in black, with a simple lacing of silver.
• The writers of this time speak of tight lacing, and of ladies with small waists.
• The completed foundation is laced upon the frame, taking the lacing cotton through the double edge formed by the increased and decreased stitches.
• If the four corners of the netting are tied at each corner of the frame before beginning the lacing, that operation is greatly facilitated.
• Lacing the first bales up slowly and deliberately, they open another and find a canvas bath and washhandstand.
• Just then Gascoyne, who, with Wilkes, was busied lacing some of the armor plates with new thongs, called Myles, and he turned and entered the pavilion.
• Then with a large needle and strong twine we sewed both edges of the cloth together with long stitches, lacing the canvas over the frame as a shoe is laced over a foot.
• The canoe was then turned deck upward and the lacing tightened, while we carefully worked out all wrinkles in the cloth.

Similar words containing LAC without suffix ing

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