Lapping is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LAPPING in dictionary:

VERB:
• overtake (a competitor in a race) to become one or more laps ahead
• (of a competitor in a race) complete a lap, especially in a specified time
• wrap or enfold someone or something in (something soft)
• project beyond or overlap something
• polish (metal, glass, or a gem) with a lapping machine
• (of an animal) take up (liquid) with quick movements of the tongue
• accept something eagerly and with obvious pleasure
• (of water) wash against (something) with a gentle rippling sound
NOUN:
• the act of lapping
• the flat area between the waist and knees of a seated person
• the part of an item of clothing, especially a skirt or dress, covering the lap
• a hanging flap on a garment or a saddle.
• one circuit of a track during a race
• a stage in a swim consisting of two lengths of a pool
• a part of a journey or other undertaking
• an overlapping or projecting part
• the amount by which one thing overlaps a part of another
• a defect formed in rolling when a projecting part is accidentally folded over and pressed against the surface of the metal.
• a single turn of rope, thread, or cable round a drum or reel.
• a layer or sheet of cotton or wool, wound on a roller during manufacture.
• (in a lapping machine) a rotating disc with a coating of fine abrasive for polishing.
• a polishing tool of a special shape, coated or impregnated with an abrasive.
• the action or sound of water washing gently against something
• A kind of machine blanket or wrapping material used by calico printers.
• covering with a design in which one element covers a part of another (as with tiles or shingles)
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to fold over or around something
• present participle of lap

Words related to LAPPING

lap5 lapped11 laps6

Words that contain LAPPING

clapping15 flapping16 klapping17 lappings13 plapping15 slapping13 clappings16 flappings17 slappings14 overlapping19 shiplapping21 backslapping25 interlapping17 shiplappings22 underlapping18 backslappings26 nonoverlapping22 nonoverlappings23

How to use LAPPING in a sentence

• The slow lapping of blood broke in on the stillness.
• How she used to long to go out, as far as the sea, whose fresh breezes came to her over the wall, and whose small waves she could hear lapping on the beach.
• Then suddenly they were out of it, in the open, on the shore with the waves almost lapping their toes.
• And his mind began to dwell too much on the bridges over the Thames, and on the water lapping and swirling about the piers.
• The sound of the water gurgling and lapping by was so soothing that I began to doze.
• Once we passed a black and silent tarn, with leaden waves lapping among the stones.
• For a full minute there was no sound to be heard on the pier except the lapping of the waves.
• With the opening of the door the sound of lapping water had grown perceptibly louder.
• Toward evening the tide turned again and the truant waters came back, lapping once more the sides of our boat.
• A red light was running along the deck, a tongue of flame lapping round the forecastle, a spire shooting aloft.
• Tremblingly, with a last lingering hope, she crept on her knees to the edge of the lane of lapping black water.
• But a short distance from us were the indistinct outlines of a cart, and near the vehicle was the hound, busily occupied in lapping something that was lying upon the ground.
• But above both, dominant and insistent, murmured the lapping voice of the wonderful city at night.
• The swish and lapping of the waters on the Port Moresby beach on the southern shore of the immense island of New Guinea, filled the air with a quiet hush of expectation.
• Below him was the deep, black water, lapping and rippling as the swirl of the tide sucked it into the dark, slimy recesses among the piles.
• There was the Rock with a slow swell lapping over it.
• He stumbled against the boat, but she sprang from him, sprang for the open moonlight and the lapping water, and the next instant she was gone from his sight.
• Nearer and nearer she came, and now she saw the flames rise and lick the smoky column with great lapping tongues of fire.
• The grey water was lapping lazily against the surface of the cliff itself and she was cut off on either side.
• Suddenly a faint, faint sound half wakened her, a sound scarcely louder than the lapping of the water against the sides which had lulled her to sleep.
• After that came the lapping of the stream against an obstruction to its course.
• The lapping waters of a tiny brook were calling her to prompt and hazardous action.
• Home was here in the pitched tents, a hearthstone in the flame lapping on the singed grass, humanity in the loud welcome that rose to meet the newcomers.
• So the old craft passes her last days beside the lapping water, a pleasant and useful end.
• And through the night she was haunted, sleeping and waking, by the image of the solitary boat rocking gently on the moonlit lake, the water lapping its sides.
• He drew back, sick at heart at the sight of the waves lapping the side almost on a level with the sloping deck on which he stood.
• There the water is of the deepest, choicest emerald green, and it washes the wonderful net-work of poles with a soft, lapping sound beautiful to hear.
• They were alone with the night, and the lapping waves, and the stars.
• Behind him he has left his white mantle, and it now lies outspread from the topmost mountain peaks to the softly lapping tide at the black edges of the loch.
• Divide the slices and arrange them neatly on the dish, one lapping over another, with the fat edge outside.

Similar words containing LAPP without suffix ing

flappy16 lapped11 lappel10 lapper10 lappet10 lappie10 clapped14 clapper13 flapped15 flapper14 klapped16 lappels11 lappers11 lappets11 lappies11 plapped14 slapped12 slapper11 clappers14 clapping15 flappers15 flappier15 flapping16 klapping17 lappered13 lappeted13 lappings13 plapping15 slappers12 slapping13 clappered16 clappings16 dewlapped18 flappable18 flappiest16 flappings17 lappering14 slappings14 unflapped17 clapperboy21 clappering17 flapperish20 overlapped18 shiplapped20 backslapped24 backslapper23 clapperboys22 clapperclaw22 clapperings18 flapperhood22 interlapped16 overlapping19 shiplapping21 underlapped17 unflappable20 unflappably23 backslappers24 backslapping25 clapperboard21 clapperclaws23 flapperhoods23 interlapping17 shiplappings22 underlapping18 clapperboards22 clapperclawed25 clapperclawer24 backslappings26 clapperclawers25 clapperclawing26 malapportioned21 malappropriate22 nonoverlapping22 unflappability26 malappropriated24 malappropriates23 unflappableness24 nonoverlappings23 malapportionmen23 unflappabilitie24 unflappabilities25 malapportionment24 malapportionments25

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