Lacing

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Lace.

II. Lacing ·noun The act of securing, fastening, or tightening, with a lace or laces.

III. Lacing ·noun A lace; specifically (Mach.), a thong of thin leather for uniting the ends of belts.

IV. Lacing ·noun A system of bracing bars, not crossing each other in the middle, connecting the channel bars of a compound strut.

V. Lacing ·noun 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.

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