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Definition of Lapstones
1. lapstone [n] - See also: lapstone
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lapstones
Literary usage of Lapstones
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1857)
"... leather and the noise of the lapstones.' But the trade received its greatest
impulse from the government contracts obtained for it by Spencer Perceval, ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"As to the tubers, they vary greatly in size, form, and colour; gardeners divide
them into rounded forms and long forms or "kidneys"; "lapstones" are more or ..."
3. The Negro and the Nation: A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement by George Spring Merriam (1906)
"The men who own and till the soil, who drive the mills, and hammer out their own
iron and leather on their own anvils and lapstones . . . are honest, ..."
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