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lamping

lamping noun: 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. Also the present participle and gerund of lamp.

Noun

lamping (uncountable)

  1. (Ireland, UK) 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.
    • Most sacred fire, that burnest mightily / In liuing brests, ykindled first aboue, / Emongst th'eternall spheres and lamping sky […]!1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Proper noun capitalized: Lamping

Lamping (plural Lampings)

  1. A surname.

Also used as

lamping is also the present participle and gerund of lamp.

Forms of lamping

pluralLampings

Origin of lamping

From lamp + -ing.

Phrases with lamping

Questions about lamping

What does lamping mean?
Lamping means 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.
What part of speech is lamping?
Lamping can be a noun, an adjective or a proper noun.

Words near lamping in the dictionary

  1. lamphouses
  2. lamphredin
  3. Lamphun
  4. lampic acid
  5. Lampinen
  6. lamping
  7. lamping along
  8. Lampings
  9. Lampinigan
  10. lampion
  11. lampions

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