Lapstone

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  • n. A stone for the lap, on which shoemakers used to beat leather.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A stone for the lap, on which shoemakers beat leather.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A stone held in the lap on which shoemakers hammer leather to make it more solid.
    • Word Usage
    "Now it's cannon balls and axes and disks -- if a "lapstone" be a disk -- it's a flat stone, at any rate."
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