Meaning of lepay | Babel Free

Definitions

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

Trinidad-and-Tobago

Examples

“lepaying - smearing mixture of mud, dung and water by hand to make⟳ walls, floors, etc.”

“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⟳.”

“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 […]”

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

“Using a mixture of dirt, water and cow dung, Mommy lepayed (plastered the ground) until it was smooth.”

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