[ noun ] covering with a design in which one element covers a part of another (as with tiles or shingles) <noun.artifact>
Lap \Lap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Lapped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Lapping}.] 1. To rest or recline in a lap, or as in a lap.
To lap his head on lady's breast. --Praed.
2. To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc. See 1st {Lap}, 10.
Lapping \Lap"ping\, n. A kind of machine blanket or wrapping material used by calico printers. --Ure.
{Lapping engine}, {Lapping machine} (Textile Manuf.), A machine for forming fiber info a lap. See its {Lap}, 9.
She is lapping up the world. There is nothing weary about her approach to life.
With recession in continental Europe now lapping around Kayserberg, Smith has leapt again in buying Spicers for Pounds 95m.
But fear, and dread, are already lapping on Bahrain's shores.
Many other houses are in no shape to live in. Waters lapping at the front door and sea breezes drifting by the balcony may inspire poetry, but flooding and salty air constantly erode foundations and beams.
As the jets roared in Thursday, drowning out the lapping of the slow-moving river and the chirping of crickets, journalists and soldiers threw themselves against the earth.
Some sections of the subway system were under eight feet of water and the water was lapping over some platforms, said Transit Authority spokesman Bob Slovak.
Late Thursday the oily sheen was reported lapping at the rocks on islands near Kenai Fjords National Park, a remote refuge 100 miles southwest of Valdez.