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Draw through eyes or holes
Answer for the clue "Draw through eyes or holes ", 6 letters:
lacing
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Word definitions for lacing in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 That with which something is laced. 2 The tied laces that form a netlike pattern. 3 A beating as punishment; a hiding. vb. (present participle of lace English)
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a small amount of liquor added to a food or beverage a cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment) [syn: lace ] the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows [syn: beating ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lace \Lace\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Laced ([=a]st); p. pr. & vb. n. Lacing .] To fasten with a lace; to draw together with a lace passed through eyelet holes; to unite with a lace or laces, or, figuratively. with anything resembling laces. --Shak. When Jenny's ...
Usage examples of lacing.
Seregil paid his price without quibbling and Maklin threw in a sword belt, showing Alec how to wrap it twice around his waist 63 and fix the lacings so that the blade hung at the proper angle against his left hip.
When Alec had pulled the lacings snug, he carefully draped a gauzy wimple over his hair, binding it with a silk cord and arranging the folds to spread gracefully over his shoulders.
And she looked up at him, her fingers lacing into the thick black hair she loved to touch, her aquamarine eyes shimmering over him with wondering satisfaction while he slowly lowered her down on to the pillows.
He changed trews and shirt, and began lacing up the white, blue-and-silver-trimmed doeskin tunic.
By the time the apple dumplings were cooked and cooling, with a crust of sugar lacing the brown pastry, she was fairly itching to put her plan into action.
The causes are tight lacing, prolapse of the abdominal organs, weakness of the supporting ligaments, and enervating habits.
The maids fussed with the lacings on the side of the overgown as she closed her burning eyes for a moment to fight for control and serenity.
Just then Gascoyne, who, with Wilkes, was busied lacing some of the armor plates with new thongs, called Myles, and he turned and entered the pavilion.
As he bent over, lacing his boots, there was a certain vulgar gusto in his movement that divided him from the reserved, watchful rest of the family.
The others were awake: Peterson lacing up his boots, McCloy shaving by flashlight at the makeshift washstand outside, Lemmon wiping the dampness from his carbine, Tester doing the same to his rare and precious SK-50, a submachine gun he had acquired because his pistol seemed an inadequate means of self-defense.
Lacing his hands behind his head, Moodie looked at his rookie for a long moment.
Feebleness of the constitution, impoverishment of the blood, a scrofulous diathesis, want of exercise, uncleanliness, tight lacing, disappointment, excessive excitement of the passions, the use of pessaries for displacement of the uterus, overwork, and taking cold, all predispose the cervical membrane to chronic ulceration.
He tapped the swagger, stick against the lacings of his rubber-soled jungle boots with a monotonous rhythm that began to irritate Craig.
She knew the bustier pressed their fullness high above the leather lacings.
With a smile toward me, he playfully extended the prodder key until it contacted the edge of the unfolded micronic lacing.