lamping

noun, adj — 2 senses

noun

Etymology From lamp + -ing.

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.

adj

Etymology From lamp + -ing.

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:

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