lamping

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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.

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Meanings

lamping1

nounlamping (uncountable)
  1. IrelandUKuncountableA form of hunting at night, during which bright lights or lamps are used to dazzle the hunted animal or to attract insects for capture.
adjectivelamping (not comparable)
  1. archaicnot comparableBright, 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
verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of lamp

Lamping2

proper nounLamping (plural Lampings)

plural Lampings

  1. A surname.

Origin

From lamp + -ing.

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APA

lamping. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lamping

MLA

“lamping.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lamping. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “lamping,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lamping.

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