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  • verb Present participle of nape.

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Examples

  • Here I sit, with my very first batch of sourdough rising, the kids naping, and I'm getting ready to take a rest on the couch and submerge myself in the Word of God.

    Frazzled By the Age of Fifty 2006

  • Others just think it was more a simple case ofmind-naping.

    WAS THAT YOU, GERALDO? 2007

  • Hes falling asleep, thats why you hardly see him out , hes naping. and have you noticed he has 1, suite.

    Flagburners and Pedophiles Are Pepper People Too Nathaniel Livingston 2005

  • True, they had agreed to commit their children to Project control in return for a year of free room, board, and education, but to some of them the whole business still seemed like kid-naping.

    Nor Crystal Tears Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1982

  • Hola! ma cherie, I wish to leave with you my gold-work, my velvet, my silk, my feather bed, my incense-boat, my ewer, my naping linen, and all the rest of it.

    The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

  • Hola! ma cherie, I wish to leave with you my gold-work, my velvet, my silk, my feather bed, my incense-boat, my ewer, my naping linen, and all the rest of it.

    The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

  • Hola! ma cherie, I wish to leave with you my gold-work, my velvet, my silk, my feather bed, my incense-boat, my ewer, my naping linen, and all the rest of it.

    The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

  • Six -- a box of monies, three pounds of Limousine gold-work, a pair of boots, silver tagged, and, lastly, a store of naping linen.

    The White Company Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • Hola! ma cherie, I wish to leave with you my gold-work, my velvet, my silk, my feather bed, my incense-boat, my ewer, my naping linen, and all the rest of it.

    The White Company Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • Six -- a box of monies, three pounds of Limousine gold-work, a pair of boots, silver tagged, and, lastly, a store of naping linen.

    The White Company 1890

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