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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

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

Derived forms: lacings

See also: lacer

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

Part of: shoe

Encyclopedia: Lace