Lapping (root: lap)

POS

Verb (usu participle)

HYPHEN

lap=ping

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun Lapping has 1 sense

lapping(n = noun.artifact) imbrication, overlapping - covering with a design in which one element covers a part of another (as with tiles or shingles); Array

is a kind of covering

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CIDE DICTIONARY

Lapping, n.

A kind of machine blanket or wrapping material used by calico printers. Ure. [1913 Webster]

Lapping engine, Lapping machine (Textile Manuf.), A machine for forming fiber info a lap. See its Lap, 9.

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THESAURUS

Lapping

babbling, bridging, bubbling, burbling, compotation, drinking, drunkenness, guggling, gulping, gurgling, guzzling, imbibing, imbibition, imbricate, incumbent, lap, nipping, overarched, overlapping, overlying, plash, plashing, potation, pulling, quaffing, rippling, shingled, slipping, slosh, sloshing, spanning, splash, splashing, superincumbent, swash, swigging, swilling, swishing, symposium, tasting, trilling, wash, washing

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