lamping

See also: Lamping

English

Etymology

From lamp +‎ -ing.

Noun

lamping (uncountable)

  1. A form of hunting, at night, in which bright lights or lamps are used to dazzle the hunted animal or to attract insects for capture.

Adjective

lamping (comparative more lamping, superlative most lamping)

  1. (archaic) Bright, flashing, resplendent.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.3:
      Most sacred fire, that burnest mightily / In liuing brests, ykindled first aboue, / Emongst th'eternall spheres and lamping sky […] !

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