Crossword-Solution: LAPSTONE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Lapstone | n. | A stone for the lap, on which shoemakers beat leather. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| LAPSTONE | anagram | PLEONAST, POLENTAS |
We have 1 clue for the answer “LAPSTONE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Shoemaker's object for hammering leather. | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ECMZAE
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eruption
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Sentences with LAPSTONE (5)
Therefore one softens down the ugly central fact of donkeyism,—recommends study of good models,—that writing verse should be an incidental occupation only, not interfering with the hoe, the needle, the lapstone, or the ledger,—and, above all that there should be no hurry in printing what is written.
Even Cleve Flanders' grave,--the Edgewood shoemaker, who lay next,--even his resting-place was marked and, with a touch of some one's imagination marked by the old man's own lapstone twenty-five pounds in weight, a monument of his work-a-day life.
Others will upheave the blacksmith’s hammer, or drive the plane over the carpenter’s bench, or take the lapstone and the awl and learn the trade of shoemaking.
UNTIL BEDTIME Silas Foster, by the time we concluded our meal, had stript off his coat, and planted himself on a low chair by the kitchen fire, with a lapstone, a hammer, a piece of sole leather, and some waxed-ends, in order to cobble an old pair of cowhide boots; he being, in his own phrase, "something of a dab" (whatever degree of skill that may imply) at the shoemaking business.
Therefore one softens down the ugly central fact of donkeyism, --recommends study of good models,--that writing verse should be an incidental occupation only, not interfering with the hoe, the needle, the lapstone, or the ledger,--and, above all that there should be no hurry in printing what is written.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1947).