lap

UK /læp/ US /læp/
noun 15verb 9adj 1

Definitions

noun

1

The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.

2

An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth.

3

The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered.

4

A place of rearing and fostering.

5

The upper legs of a seated person.

The boy was sitting on his mother's lap.

verb

1

To enfold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.

Her garment spreads, and laps him in the fold.

2

To rest or recline in someone's lap, or as in a lap.

to lap his head on lady's breast

verb

1

To fold; to bend and lay over or on something.

to lap a piece of cloth

2

to wrap around, enwrap, wrap up

to lap a bandage around a finger

About the paper […] I lapped several times a slender thread of very black silk.

3

to envelop, enfold

lapped in luxury

4

to wind around

5

To place or lay (one thing) so as to overlap another.

One laps roof tiles so that water can run off.

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