Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of licking up with the tongue.
- noun The motion and sound of rippling water.
- noun The act of wrapping or folding.
- noun The act of superimposing the margin of a piece of any material upon the margin of another piece, as in making a lap-joint.
- noun In textile manuf., the process of forming a lap or fleece of fibrous material suitable for presentation or delivery to the carding-machine.
- noun In ordnance, a process for slightly increasing the bore of a rifled gun by wearing away the lands, or metal between the rifle-grooves.
- noun In metal-working, the smoothing of metal surfaces by rubbing them with a plate of metal rendered abrasive by the application of oil and powdered corundum, or by the application of a revolving disk similarly prepared.
- noun That which is lapped; a flap or pendant.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A kind of machine blanket or wrapping material used by calico printers.
- noun (Textile Manuf.) A machine for forming fiber info a lap. See its
Lap , 9.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
lap . - noun A kind of
machine blanket orwrapping material used bycalico printers .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun covering with a design in which one element covers a part of another (as with tiles or shingles)
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Examples
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Iceland, Ireland ... yes, they will mention those, and the fact is that when both of those countries are back in the saddle, playign their full role in a Europe that pays attention to them, and getting prosperous and creative once again, Wales will still be the butt-end of the UK lapping from the toilet bowl of ill-health, high unemployment, cultural marginalisation and disgraceful poverty.
Same old Tories 2008
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The skirt is kind of lapping at the boobs of the top like waves.
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Francis referred to his spirit as being like a liquid (like water) and asked God to drink him up - 'lapping' him in - not with the idea of being destroyed, but of being relieved from the sensual (sinful) drive to put himself (or some other thing) on the throne of his heart.
The mystical ecstasy of God's love! St. Joseph's Secular Franciscan Fraternity 2009
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It was kind of -- you couldn't say sobbing, exactly, you know, "heaving in sobs," but there was a kind of, I would call it, surging thing going on, a kind of lapping thing, like it was hurling itself against the garage, in sorrow or -- it was actually kind of horrible.
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You see a car wash where the water is there kind of lapping up against the side of the buildings, some convenience stores.
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You're kind of lapping the NVA and Vet Corp defection.
pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator 2008
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"lapping" over large portions of protective booms around pelican rookeries in Barataria
National Nine News 2010
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So it has been a very easy-going lapping of the field.
US Open 2011: Rory McIlroy hailed as being 'better than Tiger Woods' 2011
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Samson crouched on the hall table, his furry head deep in the ice cream container, lapping it up as fast as he could.
Choker Elizabeth Woods 2011
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In March, Cain won a presidential straw poll in Des Moines, lapping a field that featured populist firebrands like Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann.
Herman Cain Sees Steady Rise In Support Ahead Of 2012 The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
alexz commented on the word lapping
arctic sea expeditions - overlapped ice layers. from the Sailors Word Book http://goo.gl/ZIhkR
January 18, 2013