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noun Lapping n. A kind of machine blanket or wrapping material used by calico printers. Lapping engine, Lapping machine (Textile Manuf.), A machine for forming fiber info a lap. See its Lap, 9.
verb Lap v. t. (past & past part. lapped; pres. part. lapping) 1.To rest or recline in a lap, or as in a lap. "To lap his head on lady's breast." 2.To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc. See 1st Lap, 10.
Lap v. t. 1.To fold; to bend and lay over or on something; as, to lap a piece of cloth. 2.To wrap or wind around something. "About the paper... I lapped several times a slender thread of very black silk." 3.To infold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish. "Her garment spreads, and laps him in the folds." 4.To lay or place over anything so as to partly or wholly cover it; as, to lap one shingle over another; to lay together one partly over another; as, to lap weather-boards; also, to be partly over, or by the side of (something); as, the hinder boat lapped the foremost one. 5.(Carding & Spinning) To lay together one over another, as fleeces or slivers for further working. To lap boards, To lap shingles, etc., to lay one partly over another. To lap timbers, to unite them in such a way as to preserve the same breadth and depth throughout, as by scarfing.
Lap v. t. To take into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a quick motion of the tongue. "They 'II take suggestion as a cat laps milk."
Lap v. i. To be turned or folded; to lie partly upon or by the side of something, or of one another; as, the cloth laps back; the boats lap; the edges lap. "The upper wings are opacous; at their hinder ends, where they lap over, transparent, like the wing of a flay."
Lap v. i. 1.To take up drink or food with the tongue; to drink or feed by licking up something. "The dogs by the River Nilus's side, being thirsty, lap hastily as they run along the shore." 2.To make a sound like that produced by taking up drink with the tongue. "I heard the ripple washing in the reeds, And the wild water lapping on the crag."
Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48
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