| Lap (lap) |
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| n. | (?) |
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| Lap |
| [OE. lappe, AS.
læppa; akin to D. lap patch, piece, G.
lappen, OHG. lappa, Dan. lap, Sw. lapp.] |
The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a
garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
An edge; a border; a hem, as of
cloth.
The part of the clothing that lies on the
knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus
covered; figuratively, a place of rearing and fostering; as, to be
reared in the lap of luxury.
That part of any substance or fixture
which extends over, or lies upon, or by the side of, a part of
another; as, the lap of a board; also, the measure of such
extension over or upon another thing.
The amount by which
a slide valve at its half stroke overlaps a port in the seat, being
equal to the distance the valve must move from its mid stroke
position in order to begin to open the port. Used alone, lap
refers to outside lap. See Outside lap (below).
The state or condition of being in part
extended over or by the side of something else; or the extent of the
overlapping; as, the second boat got a lap of half its length
on the leader.
One circuit around a race track, esp. when
the distance is a small fraction of a mile; as, to run twenty
laps; to win by three laps. See Lap, to fold,
2.
In card playing and other games, the
points won in excess of the number necessary to complete a game; --
so called when they are counted in the score of the following
game.
A sheet, layer, or
bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the carding machine.
A piece of brass, lead, or
other soft metal, used to hold a cutting or polishing powder in
cutting glass, gems, and the like, or in polishing cutlery, etc. It
is usually in the form of wheel or disk, which revolves on a vertical
axis.
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To rest or recline in a lap,
or as in a lap.
To cut or polish with a lap, as glass,
gems, cutlery, etc. See 1st Lap, 10.
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To fold; to bend and lay over or on
something; as, to lap a piece of cloth.
To wrap or wind around
something.
To infold; to hold as in one's lap; to
cherish.
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.
To lay
together one over another, as fleeces or slivers for further
working.
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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.
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| Lap (lap) |
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| v. i. | (?) |
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| Lap |
| [OE. lappen,
lapen, AS. lapian; akin to LG. lappen, OHG.
laffan, Icel. lepja, Dan. lade, Sw.
läppja, L. lambere; cf. Gr. (?), W. llepio.
Cf. Lambent.] |
To take up drink or food
with the tongue; to drink or feed by licking up something.
To make a sound like that produced by
taking up drink with the tongue.
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To take into the mouth
with the tongue; to lick up with a quick motion of the
tongue.
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The act
of lapping with, or as with, the tongue; as, to take anything into
the mouth with a lap.
The sound of lapping.
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