Lacing

Verb

1. Present participle of lace

Full definition of lacing

Noun

1. That with which something is laced.A light lacing of rum goes into the cake batter.
2. The tied laces that form a netlike pattern.
3. 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...