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pasting

/ˈpeɪstɪŋ/ noun C2
  1. The act of applying paste to something, or affixing something using paste.
  2. A defeat; a beating. (slang)

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One winter’s night, as we sat together by the fire, I ventured to suggest to him that, as he had finished pasting extracts into his common-place book, he might employ the next two hours in making our room a little more habitable.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 2 · B2
Across the middle of it a single sentence had been formed by the expedient of pasting printed words upon it.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 35 · C1

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