lamping

See also: Lamping

English

Etymology

From lamp +‎ -ing.

Noun

lamping (uncountable)

1. (UK, Ireland) A form of hunting at night, during which bright lights or lamps are used to dazzle the hunted animal or to attract insects for capture.

Adjective

lamping (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Bright, flashing, resplendent.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Most sacred fire, that burnest mightily / In liuing brests, ykindled first aboue, / Emongst th'eternall spheres and lamping sky […] !

Verb

lamping

1. present participle and gerund of lamp

Anagrams

• palming