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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

... sound or sign of life, except the grunts of the camels as they strained up the sandy slopes. Presently we sighted a newly lighted hunting smoke, not a mile from us; with my field-glasses I could see the flames of the fiercely burning spinifex lapping the crest of a high sand-ridge. Leaving the tracks I was following I rejoined the main party, and, calling to Charlie to accompany me, and to the others to follow us as fast as they could, I set off for the fire. Having anticipated reaching the scene of the smoke ...

— Spinifex and Sand - Five Years' Pioneering and Exploration in Western Australia • David W Carnegie

... a remote place. There is any amount of liquor to be got: you can also get the never-varying chop or steak served up with another variety of miserable cooking, but you cannot get a bit of fish any more than if the sea were five hundred miles off instead of lapping on the rocks less than a perch away. Was pulled across the Sound by two young girls, who handled the big oars as if they were used to them, and urged the boat with its load of men across the green waters ...

— The Letters of "Norah" on her Tour Through Ireland • Margaret Dixon McDougall

... The corvette lay becalmed, lapping her sides in the shining water, as the glass-like undulations under her keel rolled her now to starboard and now to port, the sun striking down and making the pitch bubble up out of the seams of her deck. No sail was in sight, but still a bright look-out was kept. In case any slaver bringing ...

— The Three Commanders • W.H.G. Kingston

... crash—no hissing, spattering of small fragments dropping into water—nothing but the terrible silence, which seemed as if it would never end; and at last a heavy dull splash, the hissing of water, and a curious lapping sound repeated by the smooth water, till all died away, and there was silence once again. "Awful!" muttered Saxe, as he wiped his damp brow. "Poor Melchior!—no wonder he ...

— The Crystal Hunters - A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps • George Manville Fenn

... tribes before the protruding line of white settlement, and their ultimate confinement to ever shrinking reservations. In studying increase of population, it sees in Switzerland chalet and farm creeping higher up the Alp, as the lapping of a rising tide of humanity below; it sees movement in the projection of a new dike in Holland to reclaim from the sea the land for another thousand inhabitants, movement in Japan's doubling of its territory by conquest, in order to house ...

— Influences of Geographic Environment - On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography • Ellen Churchill Semple

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