noun
The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth.
The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered.
A place of rearing and fostering.
The upper legs of a seated person.
The boy was sitting on his mother's lap.
verb
To enfold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.
Her garment spreads, and laps him in the fold.
To rest or recline in someone's lap, or as in a lap.
to lap his head on lady's breast
verb
To fold; to bend and lay over or on something.
to lap a piece of cloth
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.
to envelop, enfold
lapped in luxury
to wind around
To place or lay (one thing) so as to overlap another.
One laps roof tiles so that water can run off.