lapping
    n 1: covering with a design in which one element covers a part
         of another (as with tiles or shingles) [syn: imbrication,
         overlapping, lapping]

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.
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            To lap his head on lady's breast.     --Praed.
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   2. To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc.
      See 1st Lap, 10.
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Lapping \Lap"ping\, n.
   A kind of machine blanket or wrapping material used by calico
   printers. --Ure.
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   Lapping engine, Lapping machine (Textile Manuf.), A
      machine for forming fiber info a lap. See its Lap, 9.
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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).