[1] : The 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.
      1913 webster

            to lap his head on lady's breast.     --praed.
      1913 webster

   2. to cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc.
      see 1st lap, 10.
      1913 webster
see also:
lapped lapping lap 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

lapping \lap"ping\, n.
   a kind of machine blanket or wrapping material used by calico
   printers. --ure.
   1913 webster

   lapping engine, lapping machine textile manuf., a
      machine for forming fiber info a lap. see its lap, 9.
      1913 webster
see also:
lapping engine lapping machine lap 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

lap
     n 1: the upper side of the thighs of a seated person; "he picked
          up the little girl and plopped her down in his lap"
     2: an area of control or responsibility; "the job fell right in
        my lap"
     3: the part of a piece of clothing that covers the thighs; "his
        lap was covered with food stains" syn: lap covering
     4: a flap that lies over another part; "the lap of the shingles
        should be at least ten inches" syn: overlap
     5: movement once around a course; "he drove an extra lap just
        for insurance" syn: circle, circuit
     6: touching with the tongue; "the dog's laps were warm and wet"
        syn: lick
     v 1: lie partly over or alongside of something or of one another
     2: pass the tongue over; "the dog licked her hand" syn: lick
     3: move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing
        sound; "the bubbles swoshed around in the glass"; "the
        curtain swooshed open" syn: swish, swosh, swoosh
     4: take up with the tongue; "the cat lapped up the milk"; "the
        cub licked the milk from its mother's breast" syn: lap
        up, lick
     5: wash or flow against; "the waves laved the shore" syn: lave,
         wash
     also: lapping, lapped
see also:
lap covering overlap circle circuit lick swish 
swosh swoosh lap up lave wash 
lapping lapped 

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

lapping
     n : covering with a design in which one element covers a part of
         another as with tiles or shingles syn: imbrication,
         overlapping
see also:
imbrication overlapping 

[5] : WordNet (r) 2.0

lapping
     see lap
see also:
lap 

[6] : 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

[7] : 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.
   

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