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English
Etymology
From lap + work.
Noun
lapwork (uncountable)
- Work in which one part overlaps another.
1681, Nehemiah Grew, Musæum Regalis Societatis. Or A Catalogue & Description of the Natural and Artificial Rarities Belonging to the Royal Society and Preserved at Gresham Colledge. , London: W. Rawlins, for the author, →OCLC:A basket […] into which by the Indian-Women are wrought, by a kind of Lap-Work, the Quills of Porcupines
References
“lapwork”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.