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(UK, Ireland) 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. examples
comparative more lamping, superlative most lamping
(archaic) Bright, flashing, resplendent. quotations
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
present participle and gerund of lamp examples