lepay

present singular third person lepays · participle present lepaying · participle past lepayed · past lepayed

1. Trinidad and TobagoTo smear a mixture of mud, dung and water by hand to make walls or floors.

   Nobody know how to lepay again, but them mud house was cooler than anything else.

   2019, Rabindranath Maharaj, Fatboy Fall Down: A Novel

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   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

   In a Hindu family having a cow was not only sacred, but it also gave milk for nourishment, produced cow manure to fertilize the plants, made 'gobar' (fresh cow droppings) to 'lepay' the floors and walls of mud huts […]

   2018, Kenrick B. Maharaj, Reminiscing: Stories of My Youth

   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