lapstone
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]lapstone (plural lapstones)
- (archaic or historical) A stone placed on a shoemaker's lap, used to beat leather.
- 1939, “The Foreman of the Jury”, in The Casket:
- he would jerk away, and pelt upon his lapstone as though he were beating the very soul out of his leather
References
[edit]- “lapstone”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.