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lapping |
4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. To lap his head on lady's breast. --Praed. 2. To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc See 1st {Lap}, 10. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Lapping \Lap"ping\, n. A kind of machine blanket or wrapping material used by calico printers. --Ure. {Lapping engine}, {Lapping machine} (Textile Manuf.), A machine for forming fiber info a lap. See its {Lap}, 9. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: lapping n : covering with an overlapping design as with tiles or shingles [syn: {imbrication}, {overlapping}] From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: 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).
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