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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

  1. \La"cing\, n.
    1. The act of securing, fastening, or tightening, with a lace
       or laces.
    
    2. A lace; specifically (Mach.), a thong of thin leather for
       uniting the ends of belts.
    
    3. A rope or line passing through eyelet holes in the edge of
       a sail or an awning to attach it to a yard, gaff, etc.
    
    4. (Bridge Building) A system of bracing bars, not crossing
       each other in the middle, connecting the channel bars of a
       compound strut. --Waddell.

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