Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who laps with the tongue.
- noun In entomology, one of the tropin or mouth-organs which are used for lapping honey or other food, as the tongue of a bee.
- A Scotch form of
lopper . - noun One who laps.
- noun One who uses a lap, as in a lapidary's work.
- noun In cotton manufacturing, a machine which receives the scutched cotton from the batting-and blowing-machine, and compacts it into a lap or fleece upon the surface of a roller called a lap-roller.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who takes up food or liquid with his tongue.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
laps liquid, who takes liquid in with his tongue. - noun in combination something (especially a race) that is a stated number of
laps e.g. a 25-lapper - noun sports A competitor who is one lap behind another, in the same race, and hence physically in front.
- noun A
mechanism thatoverlaps material to make it thicker; a lapping cylinder or lapping machine - verb To make a gentle
splashing sound, as the sound of flowing water.
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Examples
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Next the cotton is fed into a "lapper," which continues the work of untangling the fibers, removing impurities, including broken ends or short lint.
From the Cotton Field to the Cotton Mill: A Study of the Industrial Transition in North Carolina 1906
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The "lapper" has been featured in several home magazines and design blogs.
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The "lapper" has been featured in several home magazines and design blogs.
theadvertiser.com - 2009
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But on this night, waiting for the dew, a little of it, to become more, on the surfaces that were mine, I heard the noises of a dew-lapper moving aft along the port - gunwale -- which was my property aft of the stroke-thwart clear to the stern.
CHAPTER X 2010
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Meanwhile there is a Dell lapper standing by when/if all these other things let me down.
The Hidden Risks Of Cloud Computing | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Until he throws a lapper or 2 it would really look better on your part if you complained about someone who up to this point that has brought a negative to this team.
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"Wait out here while I pop into the villa and grab a lapper." i Jake watched a grey lizard, who was perched atop an bask in the hot sun. returned swinging a greasy old-fashioned computer.
Tek Money Shatner, William 1995
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"You can lead a dog to gravy, but you can't make him a lapper."
Hollywood Nocturne Ellroy, James 1994
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The drawing hands were paid on that, but the cards and the lapper hands were paid by the hour.
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You see, in a mill you start with the lapper, and every machine drafts it down.
tim_retep commented on the word lapper
lapper – a hard drinker
July 31, 2009