Lapwork

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Work in which one part overlaps another. uncountable

    "A basket […] into which by the Indian-Women are wrought, by a kind of Lap-Work, the Quills of Porcupines"

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"A basket […] into which by the Indian-Women are wrought, by a kind of Lap-Work, the Quills of Porcupines"

Etymology

From lap + work.

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