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Lacing vs Lawing - What's the difference?

lacing | lawing |

As nouns the difference between lacing and lawing

is that lacing is that with which something is laced while lawing is going to law; litigation.

As a verb lacing

is present participle of lang=en.

lacing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • That with which something is laced.
    • A light lacing of rum goes into the cake batter.
  • The tied laces that form a netlike pattern.
  • A beating as punishment; a hiding.
  • * 1964 , Tom Pyle, ?Beth Day Romulo, Pocantico: Fifty Years on the Rockefeller Domain (page 168)
    • The Nelson family chauffeur, Ed, told me that Steven was missing. Ed was angry that the kid had run off, and he said when he got his hands on him he was going to give him a good lacing

    See also

    * shoelace

    lawing

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Going to law; litigation.
    • (Holinshed)

    Anagrams

    *waling