lapstone

noun

lapstone

noun

Etymology From lap + stone.

1

Archaic, Historical A stone placed on a shoemaker's lap, used to beat leather.

he would jerk away, and pelt upon his lapstone as though he were beating the very soul out of his leather1939, “The Foreman of the Jury”, in The Casket:

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