lapping

Plural: lappings

Noun

• covering with a design in which one element covers a part of another (as with tiles or shingles)
• A kind of machine blanket or wrapping material used by calico printers.
• The process of forming a lap or fleece of fibrous material for the carding-machine.
• The rubbing or polishing of a metal surface.
• A form of fraud in which payments in the accounts are repeatedly delayed between periods, or diverted between customers, to conceal a theft.
• The process of rubbing away the lands, or metal between the grooves of a rifled gun, to increase the bore.
• Lengths of fine silk, metal wire, or whalebone wrapped tightly around the stick of the bow of a string instrument adjacent to the leather part of the bow grip at the heel.
• The gentle, rhythmic sound of water splashing against a solid surface.

Verb

Verb Forms: lap, lapped, laps

• Wrapping or folding around something; drinking with the tongue; flowing gently.
• lie partly over or alongside of something or of one another
• pass the tongue over
• move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound
• take up with the tongue
• wash or flow against
• present participle and gerund of lap

Examples

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Synonyms

imbrication, lap, lap up, lave, lick, overlapping, swish, swoosh, swosh, wash, winding

Related Words

self-lapping

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