lapwork

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

lap +‎ work

Noun[edit]

lapwork (uncountable)

  1. Work in which one part overlaps another.
    • 1681, Nehemiah Grew, Musæum Regalis Societatis. Or A Catalogue & Description of the Natural and Artificial Rarities Belonging to the Royal Society and Preserved at Gresham Colledge. […], London: […] W. Rawlins, for the author, →OCLC:
      A basket […] into which by the Indian-Women are wrought, by a kind of Lap-Work, the Quills of Porcupines

References[edit]

“lapwork”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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