lapping

5 definitions found

lapping - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Lap \Lap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lapped; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Lapping.]
     1. To rest or recline in a lap, or as in a lap.
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              To lap his head on lady's breast.     --Praed.
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     2. To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc.
        See 1st Lap, 10.
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  Lapping \Lap"ping\, n.
     A kind of machine blanket or wrapping material used by calico
     printers. --Ure.
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     Lapping engine, Lapping machine (Textile Manuf.), A
        machine for forming fiber info a lap. See its Lap, 9.
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lapping - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  lapping
      n 1: covering with a design in which one element covers a part
           of another (as with tiles or shingles) [syn: imbrication,
           overlapping, lapping]

lapping - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :

  Lapping
  of water like a dog, i.e., by putting the hand filled with water
  to the mouth. The dog drinks by shaping the end of his long thin
  tongue into the form of a spoon, thus rapidly lifting up water,
  which he throws into his mouth. The three hundred men that went
  with Gideon thus employed their hands and lapped the water out
  of their hands (Judg. 7:7).

lapping - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  43 Moby Thesaurus words for "lapping":
     babbling, bridging, bubbling, burbling, compotation, drinking,
     drunkenness, guggling, gulping, gurgling, guzzling, imbibing,
     imbibition, imbricate, incumbent, lap, nipping, overarched,
     overlapping, overlying, plash, plashing, potation, pulling,
     quaffing, rippling, shingled, slipping, slosh, sloshing, spanning,
     splash, splashing, superincumbent, swash, swigging, swilling,
     swishing, symposium, tasting, trilling, wash, washing