lamping
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
lamping (uncountable)
- (UK, Ireland) A form of hunting at night, during which bright lights or lamps are used to dazzle the hunted animal or to attract insects for capture.
Adjective[edit]
lamping (comparative more lamping, superlative most lamping)
- (archaic) Bright, flashing, resplendent.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Most sacred fire, that burnest mightily / In liuing brests, ykindled first aboue, / Emongst th'eternall spheres and lamping sky […] !
Verb[edit]
lamping
- present participle and gerund of lamp