"lacings" in the noun sense
1. lacing
a small amount of liquor added to a food or beverage
2. lace, lacing
a cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment)
3. beating, thrashing, licking, drubbing, lacing, trouncing, whacking
the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows
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