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- English Word Lap 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.
- English Word Lap Definition To rest or recline in a lap, or as in a lap.
- English Word Lap Definition To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc. See 1st Lap, 10.
- English Word Lap Definition To fold; to bend and lay over or on something; as, to lap a piece of cloth.
- English Word Lap Definition To wrap or wind around something.
- English Word Lap Definition To infold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.
- English Word Lap Definition 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.
- English Word Lap Definition To lay together one over another, as fleeces or slivers for further working.
- English Word Lap 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.
- English Word Lap Definition To take up drink or food with the tongue; to drink or feed by licking up something.
- English Word Lap Definition To make a sound like that produced by taking up drink with the tongue.
- English Word Lap Definition To take into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a quick motion of the tongue.
- English Word Lap Definition The act of lapping with, or as with, the tongue; as, to take anything into the mouth with a lap.
- English Word Lap Definition The sound of lapping.
- English Word Lap-jointed Definition Having a lap joint, or lap joints, as many kinds of woodwork and metal work.
- English Word Lap-welded Definition Having edges or ends united by a lap weld; as, a lap-welded pipe.
- English Word Laparocele Definition A rupture or hernia in the lumbar regions.
- English Word Laparotomy Definition A cutting through the walls of the abdomen, as in the Caesarean section.
- English Word Lapboard Definition A board used on the lap as a substitute for a table, as by tailors.
- English Word Lapdog Definition A small dog fondled in the lap.