LAPPING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lapping mean? 

• LAPPING (noun)
  The noun LAPPING has 1 sense:

1. covering with a design in which one element covers a part of another (as with tiles or shingles)

  Familiarity information: LAPPING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LAPPING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Covering with a design in which one element covers a part of another (as with tiles or shingles)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

imbrication; lapping; overlapping

Hypernyms ("lapping" is a kind of...):

covering (an artifact that covers something else (usually to protect or shelter or conceal it))

 Context examples 

Mrs. Harker reported last night and this morning as usual: "lapping waves and rushing water," though she added that "the waves were very faint."

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It was strange to mark the hush; so that the lapping of the water, the straining of the sail, and the creaking of the timbers grew louder of a sudden upon the ear.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Some were lying down with heads raised and ears pricked forward; others stood on their feet, watching him; and still others were lapping water from the pool.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Jo could not speak, and for several minutes there was no sound but the sigh of the wind and the lapping of the tide.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

When I had dressed and opened the door, I heard the waves still lapping on the beach, garrulously attesting the fury of the night.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It was one January morning, very early—a pinching, frosty morning—the cove all grey with hoar-frost, the ripple lapping softly on the stones, the sun still low and only touching the hilltops and shining far to seaward.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Mina's morning and evening hypnotic answer is unvaried: lapping waves, rushing water, and creaking masts.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

When I aroused, it was as after centuries of time; and I saw, almost above me and emerging from the fog, the bow of a vessel, and three triangular sails, each shrewdly lapping the other and filled with wind.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Mina's report still the same: lapping waves and rushing water, darkness and favouring winds.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The lapping of water. It is gurgling by, and little waves leap. I can hear them on the outside.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)