lapstone (plural lapstones)
A stone for the lap, on which shoemakers used to beat leather.
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Source: Wiktionary
Lap"stone`, n.
Definition: A stone for the lap, on which shoemakers beat leather.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
14 March 2025
(noun) the relation between two different kinds of organisms in which one receives benefits from the other by causing damage to it (usually not fatal damage)
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
