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1. A small amount of liquor added to a food or beverage
    
2. A cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment)
   - lace
    
3. The act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows
   - beating, thrashing, licking, drubbing, trouncing, whacking, hiding [informal]

1. Spin, wind, or twist together
   "lace the ribbons";
   - intertwine, twine, entwine, enlace, interlace, interwind, intwine [archaic]
    
2. (handicraft) make by braiding or interlacing
   "lace a tablecloth";
   - braid, plait
    
3. (handicraft) do lacework
   "The Flemish women were lacing in front of the cathedral"
    
4. Draw through eyes or holes
   "lace the shoelaces";
   - lace up
    
5. (cooking) add alcohol to (beverages)
   "the punch is laced!";
   - spike, fortify

Derived forms: lacings

Type of: alter, bind, change, cord, corporal punishment, distort, hard drink, hard liquor, John Barleycorn [informal], liquor, modify, spirit [Brit], spirits [Brit], strong drink, tie, tissue, twine, twist, weave

Part of: shoe

Encyclopedia: Lacing