lapping
IPA: ɫˈæpɪŋ
noun
- A kind of machine blanket or wrapping material used by calico printers.
- The process of forming a lap or fleece of fibrous material for the carding-machine.
- The rubbing or polishing of a metal surface.
- (accounting) A form of fraud in which payments in the accounts are repeatedly delayed between periods, or diverted between customers, to conceal a theft.
- (firearms) The process of rubbing away the lands, or metal between the grooves of a rifled gun, to increase the bore.
- (lutherie) Lengths of fine silk, metal wire, or whalebone wrapped tightly around the stick of the bow of a string instrument adjacent to the leather part of the bow grip at the heel.
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Examples of "lapping" in Sentences
- You're kind of lapping the NVA and Vet Corp defection.
- So it has been a very easy-going lapping of the field.
- The skirt is kind of lapping at the boobs of the top like waves.
- "lapping" over large portions of protective booms around pelican rookeries in Barataria
- Samson crouched on the hall table, his furry head deep in the ice cream container, lapping it up as fast as he could.
- You see a car wash where the water is there kind of lapping up against the side of the buildings, some convenience stores.
- In March, Cain won a presidential straw poll in Des Moines, lapping a field that featured populist firebrands like Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann.
- It was kind of -- you couldn't say sobbing, exactly, you know, "heaving in sobs," but there was a kind of, I would call it, surging thing going on, a kind of lapping thing, like it was hurling itself against the garage, in sorrow or -- it was actually kind of horrible.
- Francis referred to his spirit as being like a liquid (like water) and asked God to drink him up - 'lapping' him in - not with the idea of being destroyed, but of being relieved from the sensual (sinful) drive to put himself (or some other thing) on the throne of his heart.
- Iceland, Ireland ... yes, they will mention those, and the fact is that when both of those countries are back in the saddle, playign their full role in a Europe that pays attention to them, and getting prosperous and creative once again, Wales will still be the butt-end of the UK lapping from the toilet bowl of ill-health, high unemployment, cultural marginalisation and disgraceful poverty.