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Definition of Lapstone
1. n. A stone for the lap, on which shoemakers beat leather.
Definition of Lapstone
1. Noun. A stone for the lap, on which shoemakers used to beat leather. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lapstone
1. a stone for hammering leather held in the lap [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lapstone
Literary usage of Lapstone
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Our Antipodes; Or, Residence and Rambles in the Australian Colonies: With a by Godfrey Charles Mundy (1852)
"... RIVER—ESTATES IN THE VALLEY—EMU PLAINS—lapstone HILL—CONVICT LABOUR—A PENINSULAR
BONIFACE—BULLOCK DRATS AND DRIVERS—FOREST TREES—BLUE MOUNTAIN INN—BUSH ..."
2. The Science and Art of Elocution and Oratory: Containing Specimens of the by Worthy Putnam (1858)
"... Fm on the brink of ruin—I feel it; I shall read my doom in the marriage list
before long—I know I shall. LESSON XXVII. RAPS ON THE lapstone. 1. ..."
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