lepay
lepay verb: to smear a mixture of mud, dung and water by hand to make walls or floors.
Verb
lepay (third-person singular simple present lepays, present participle lepaying, simple past and past participle lepayed)
- To smear a mixture of mud, dung and water by hand to make walls or floors.
- lepaying - smearing mixture of mud, dung and water by hand to make walls, floors, etc.[1972, Black Images, volume 1
- My travel across the water to this land has not been easy and many a time I have squatted in the dirt of this or that lepayed hut, a few coins knotted in the corner of my ohrni, waiting, waiting - waiting to make the next move.1991, Carmen C. Esteves, Green Cane and Juicy Flotsam: Short Stories by Caribbean Women
Examples of lepay in a sentence
- Nobody know how to lepay again, but them mud house was cooler than anything else.2019, Rabindranath Maharaj, Fatboy Fall Down: A Novel:
- Using a mixture of dirt, water and cow dung, Mommy lepayed (plastered the ground) until it was smooth.2021, Erma Jacob, A Dougla’s Tale: Growing up Inter-Racial in Inter-Cultural Flanagin Town, Trinidad:
Forms of lepay
| third-person singular present | lepays |
|---|---|
| present participle | lepaying |
| past participle | lepayed |
| past | lepayed |
Questions about lepay
- What does lepay mean?
- Lepay means to smear a mixture of mud, dung and water by hand to make walls or floors.
- How do you use lepay in a sentence?
- Nobody know how to lepay again, but them mud house was cooler than anything else.
- What part of speech is lepay?
- Lepay is a verb.
- What is the past tense of lepay?
- The past tense of lepay is lepayed.
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