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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

... went like hours the young man watched, waiting for the creatures to be done, hoping that they would go away. Fortunately the sphere lay between, and he was not forced to see too much. Only one portion of one of the monsters was visible, lapping out ...

— Astounding Stories, April, 1931 • Various

... while the rest took an early dip in the lake. It was the first week in July. Three days ago Ellen's Isle was an uninhabited wilderness and the only sound which broke the stillness of its dark woods was the rushing of the wind in the pine trees, or the lapping of the water on the little beach. Moreover, it bore the plebian name of Murphy's Island, after the president of the ill-fated Mineral Spring Water Company. Then one day had changed everything. A procession of boats had set out ...

— The Campfire Girls on Ellen's Isle - The Trail of the Seven Cedars • Hildegard G. Frey

... the crowns to look at each other; and the guests knew well that old knaves are more expert in grimaces than any others, because of their physiognomies becoming tolerably curious, like those of cats lapping up milk, or girls ...

— Droll Stories, Complete - Collected From The Abbeys Of Touraine • Honore de Balzac

... entered the brown water, which was flowing slowly and steadily over its gravel bed. With my heart in my mouth, I watched the water rise.... It was half-way to the running-board. It was level—above.... It was lapping the spare wheel, and—we were in the deepest part. Quick as a flash I changed into top and let in the clutch with a bang. Instantly the engine stopped, and the car came to rest ...

— Berry And Co. • Dornford Yates

... feet. An accordion began to whine like a tinker. Creak and strain. Faster lapping of water. A song ...

— The Wind Bloweth • Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne

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