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Laddering
- verb - come unraveled or undone as if by snagging; "Her nylons were running"
Lathering
- verb - beat severely with a whip or rod; "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced"
- exude sweat or lather; "this unfit horse lathers easily"
- form a lather; "The shaving cream lathered"
- rub soap all over, usually with the purpose of cleaning
Lecturing
- verb - censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup"
- deliver a lecture or talk; "She will talk at Rutgers next week"; "Did you ever lecture at Harvard?"
- teaching by giving a discourse on some subject (typically to a class)
Lettering
- verb - letters inscribed (especially words engraved or carved) on something
- mark letters on or mark with letters
- set down or print with letters
- win an athletic letter
Life Ring
- noun - a life preserver in the form of a ring of buoyant material
Limbering
- verb - attach the limber; "limber a cannon"
- cause to become limber; "The violist limbered her wrists before the concert"
Lingering
- verb - be about; "The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square"; "Who is this man that is hanging around the department?"
- leave slowly and hesitantly
- move to and fro; "The shy student lingered in the corner"
- remain present although waning or gradually dying; "Her perfume lingered on"
- take one's time; proceed slowly
- the act of tarrying
Littering
- verb - give birth to a litter of animals
- make a place messy by strewing garbage around
- strew; "Cigar butts littered the ground"
Lock Ring
- noun - washer that prevents a nut from loosening
Loitering
- verb - be about; "The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square"; "Who is this man that is hanging around the department?"
- Hanging around