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Lapping

noun

1.

Covering with a design in which one element covers a part of another (as with tiles or shingles). Synonyms: imbrication, overlapping.

Lap

verb

(past & past part. lapped; pres. part. lapping)

1.

Lie partly over or alongside of something or of one another.

2.

Pass the tongue over. Synonym: lick.

3.

Move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound. Synonyms: swish, swoosh, swosh. "The curtain swooshed open"

4.

Take up with the tongue. Synonyms: lap up, lick. "The cub licked the milk from its mother's breast"

5.

Wash or flow against. Synonyms: lave, wash.

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"Lapping" Quotes from Famous Books

... answer a pile of letters, but instead, he throws himself on the grass, with an afghan under his head, and falls fast asleep. Violet drowses in her hammock and dreams away the happy hours. Only a little year ago. It runs through her mind like the lapping of the waves in ...

— Floyd Grandon's Honor • Amanda Minnie Douglas

... have been untrue to the eternal fidelity which you swore to me here by this very stream? Oh, but I cannot believe it was thirty years ago, for not a grass-blade or a pebble has been altered; and I perfectly remember the lapping of water under those lichened rocks, and that continuous file of ripples yonder, which are shaped ...

— The Best Short Stories of 1919 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various

... of primrose-tinted butter, white cheeses wrapped in grape-leaves, clotted cream that quivered at a touch, tall pitchers of whey, loppered milk ready for the spoon and buttermilk in new-washed churns. Through the moist freshness of the stone room the brook ran, chuckling and lapping; great stones roughly mortared together made the floor on either side of it; the Dame stood high on wooden clogs and hummed a ballad wherein the birds sang in the morning, but at night the eggs were broken, and the wind was high and scattered ...

— In the Border Country • Josephine Daskam Bacon

... still green, and rather more solid than before. After a minute or two, you, sitting upon a rock directly above the drop, begin to understand that something has occurred; that the river has jumped between solid cliff walls, and that the gentle froth of water lapping the sides of the gorge below is really ...

— American Notes • Rudyard Kipling

... cleaned whenever necessary, and then oiled with fresh raw linseed oil from the press, put on pretty much as carefully as in ordinary varnish work. No second coat or lapping over of the oil. All was put on at once that it would take without ...

— Scientific American, Vol.22, No. 1, January 1, 1870 • Various

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