LAPPINGS
Noun
lappings
plural of lapping
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Source: Wiktionary
LAPPING
Lap"ping, n.
Definition: 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.
LAP
Lap, n. Etym: [OE. lappe, AS. læppa; akin to D. lap patch, piece, G.
lappen, OHG. lappa, Dan. lap, Sw. lapp.]
1. The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays
loosely; a skirt; an apron. Chaucer.
2. An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth. Chaucer.
If he cuts off but a lap of truth's garment, his heart smites him.
Fuller.
3. 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.
Men expect that happiness should drop into their laps. Tillotson.
4. 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.
Note: The lap of shingles or slates in roofing is the distance one
course extends over the second course below, the distance over the
course immediately below being called the cover.
5. (Steam Engine)
Definition: 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).
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. (Cotton Manuf.)
Definition: A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the
carding machine.
10. (Mach.)
Definition: 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. Lap joint, a joint made by
one layer, part, or piece, overlapping another, as in the scarfing of
timbers.
– Lap weld, a lap joint made by welding together overlapping edges
or ends.
– Inside lap (Steam Engine), lap of the valve with respect to the
exhaust port.
– Outside lap, lap with respect to the admission, or steam, port.
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.
Lap, v. t. Etym: [OE. lappen to fold (see Lap, n.); cf. also OE.
wlappen, perh. another form of wrappen, E, wrap.]
1. To fold; to bend and lay over or on something; as, to lap a piece
of cloth.
2. To wrap or wind around something.
About the paper . . . I lapped several times a slender thread of very
black silk. Sir I. Newton.
3. To infold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.
Her garment spreads, and laps him in the folds. Dryden.
4. 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.
5. (Carding & Spinning)
Definition: To lay together one over another, as fleeces or slivers for
further working. To lap boards, shingles, etc., to lay one partly
over another.
– To lap timbers, to unite them in such a way as to preserve the
same breadth and depth throughout, as by scarfing. Weale.
Lap, v. i.
Definition: 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.
The upper wings are opacous; at their hinder ends, where they lap
over, transparent, like the wing of a flay. Grew.
Lap, v. i. Etym: [OE. lappen, lapen, AS. lapian; akin to LG. lappen,
OHG. laffan, Icel. lepja, Dan. lade, Sw. läppja, L. lambere; cf. Gr.
llepio. Cf. Lambent.]
1. To take up drink or food with the tongue; to drink or feed by
licking up something.
The dogs by the River Nilus's side, being thirsty, lap hastily as
they run along the shore. Sir K. Digby.
2. To make a sound like that produced by taking up drink with the
tongue.
I heard the ripple washing in the reeds, And the wild water lapping
on the crag. Tennyson.
Lap, v. t.
Definition: To take into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a quick
motion of the tongue.
They 'II take suggestion as a cat laps milk. Shak.
Lap, n.
1. The act of lapping with, or as with, the tongue; as, to take
anything into the mouth with a lap.
2. The sound of lapping.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition