tanning vs lacing

tanning and lacing both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
tanning	Yes	No	No	No
lacing	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, lacing is a hypernym of tanning; that is, lacing is a word with a broader meaning than tanning:

Other hypernyms of tanning include beating, drubbing, licking, thrashing, trouncing, whacking.

tanning (noun)	lacing (noun)
making leather from rawhide	the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows
beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment	a cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment)
process in which skin pigmentation darkens as a result of exposure to ultraviolet light	a small amount of liquor added to a food or beverage