lapwork en · NOUN
Etymology
From lap + work.
Meanings
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(uncountable) Work in which one part overlaps another.
A basket […] into which by the Indian-Women are wrought, by a kind of Lap-Work, the Quills of Porcupines
1681, Nehemiah Grew, Musæum Regalis Societatis. Or A Catalogue & Description of the Natural and Artificial Rarities Belonging to the Royal Society and Preserved at Gresham Colledge. […], London: […] W. Rawlins, for the author, →OCLC: