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▪ I. lapping, vbl. n.1|ˈlæpɪŋ|
[f. lap v.1 + -ing1.]
The action of lap v.1 in various senses.
1. Taking up liquid with the tongue.
a1400Morte Arth. 3236 Alle fore lapynge of blude of my lele knyghtez. c1440Promp. Parv. 287/2 Lappynge of howndys, lambitus. 1611Cotgr., Lappement, a lapping, or licking vp.
2. Of water: Breaking gently against a solid body.
1855Longfellow Hiaw. iii. 100 The little Hiawatha..heard the lapping of the water. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Lapping, the undulations occasioned in the waves by the paddle-wheels of a steam-boat. 1876M. E. Braddon J. Haggard's Dau. III. 19 The gentle lapping of summer waves upon the pebbly beach. 1884Harper's Mag. Aug. 392/2 The gentle lapping of the wavelets.
▪ II. lapping, vbl. n.2|ˈlæpɪŋ|
[f. lap v.2 + -ing1.]
The action of lap v.2 in various senses.
†1. The action of wrapping up in something; in quots. concr. A wrapping; trappings, wraps.
b. Folding (in the arms); embracing; also caressing, fondling.
c. Winding up (of a matter). Obs.
c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 28 Þou reftist him al þe lappinge of pride and ipocrisie. c1400Destr. Troy 476 So luffly, so lykyng with lapping in armys. c1440Promp. Parv. 515/2 Wappynge, happynge or hyllynge (S. lappynge). 1549Latimer 4th Serm. bef. Edw. VI (Arb.) 122 There is not a more comfortable lesson in all the scripture, then here now in the lappyng vp of the matter. 1627–77Feltham Resolves i. xxxi. 54 The loving part in her, wanted an object; so play, and lapping of it [her dog], made her place it there. 1762–71H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1786) IV. 3 As those casual lappings and flowing streamers were imitated from nothing.
d. concr. (See quot.)
1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Lapping, a kind of machine blanket or wrapping material, used by calico-printers, &c., and made either plain, twilled, or fine.
2. The action of causing one thing to lap over another; the condition of being so placed. Also concr. the part that laps over.
1607Markham Caval. ii. (1617) 173 Which indeede importes a lapping or folding ouer of the outmost legge ouer the inmost. 1678Moxon Mech. Exerc. 67 Two Boards are thus lapped on the edges over one another, this lapping over is called Rabbetting. 1703T. N. City & C. Purchaser 146 Gain..is..us'd for the lapping of the end of the Joyst, &c. upon a Trimmer or Girder. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., s.v., In the polar seas, lapping applies to the young or thin ice, one plate overlapping another.
3. The process of forming into laps; attrib. in lapping cylinder, lapping machine (cf. lap n.3 6).
1825J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 381 The doffing-plate continually strips the doffer cylinder of the carded cotton, which it delivers upon the lapping cylinder in one continuous web of about 18 inches wide. 1851L. D. B. Gordon in Art Jrnl. Illustr. Catal. p. iv**/1 The web of cleaned cotton..is passed through a lapping machine.
Add:4. Commerce. A method of embezzlement in which credit for money received is entered in an account but the money itself is withheld, the discrepancy being covered by not issuing receipts for money subsequently paid in to the account. Cf. teeming and lading s.v. teeming vbl. n.2 2.
1950J. K. Lasser How to run Small Business iii. 40 Make certain that lapping (the holding back of funds despite entry in the receipt records) is not possible. 1952J. J. W. Neuner in J. K. Lasser Executive Course in Business Managem. xvii. 625 The use of an accounts-receivable ledger control account..acts as a means of safeguarding cash received from customers and reduces the possibility of ‘lapping’. 1970R. Lewis Wolf by Ears iii. 137 The technical terms are..‘kiting’ and ‘lapping’. Money is transferred between two accounts, recording the receipt prior to the balancing date and the payment after the balancing date. 1977Washington Post 4 Jan. a8/5 According to the Agriculture Department, most of the at least $294,000 in owed funds in which no criminal charges are pending involves ‘lapping’. 1990L. H. Brine Rock & Hard Place ix. 171 Collins Transport had fallen victim to a common fraud scheme known as lapping.
▪ III. lapping, vbl. n.3|ˈlæpɪŋ|
[f. lap v.4]
a. The action or process of grinding or polishing on a ‘lap’. Also attrib., as lapping machine, lapping plate.
1877Gee Pract. Gold-worker 178 Lapping..is a distinct process of finishing jewellery. 1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 350/2 ‘Lapping’..consists in grinding small facets such as those cut on a diamond to bring up its lustre, and which are cut on the gold for the same reason. 1886Walsingham & Payne-Gallwey Shooting I. iv. 69 A barrel..undergoes three distinct stages, viz.: rough-boring; fine-boring; and polishing or lapping. 1907J. V. Woodworth Grinding & Lapping ii. 65 (caption) Flat cast iron lapping plate. Ibid. 68 For lapping small thread gages a lapping machine was constructed. 1935H. J. Davies Precision Workshop Methods xiii. 242 The general effect produced by lapping is to remove the crests of a ground surface down to the bases of the intervening hollows. 1950C. R. Hine Machine Tools for Engineers xii. 241 Rough lapping may remove as much as 0·003 in., and finish-lapping as little as 0·0001 in... Commercial lapping operations can produce parts to limits of 0·000025 in. 1950W. Cooper in A. W. Judge Grinding, Lapping & Polishing II. vi. 201 The Newall 10U Universal Lapping Machine..is a type employed..for lapping anvils and parts of gauges and the locating rollers of their jig⁓borers and measuring machines. 1971B. Scharf Engin. & its Lang. x. 94 Lapping is regularly used in order to finish gear teeth, plug gauges,..straight surfaces, etc.
b. lapping in, the action of grinding in a valve (see grind v.1 5 b).
1921Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 12 Oct. 6/1 (Advt.), The quick-seating feature of ‘Burd's’ Piston Rings enables them to be perfectly and quickly fitted to the engine wall. No slow, laborious ‘lapping-in’ is necessary. 1950W. Cooper in A. W. Judge Grinding, Lapping & Polishing II. vi. 188 It has long been recognized by bearing and lubrication engineers that the ‘lapping-in’ method of bearing conditioning, by abrasive means, is the only sure and certain way to obtain best bearing performance and life.
▪ IV. lapping, ppl. a.1|ˈlæpɪŋ|
[f. lap v.1 + -ing1.]
1. That laps or takes up liquid with the tongue.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xviii. i. (1495) 742 Kynde ordenyth wysely in houndes and in other lappynge beestes tendre tonge longe and plyaunt.
transf. and fig.1865Swinburne Ilicet 80 Roses whose lips the flame has deadened Drink till the lapping leaves are reddened. 1871Rossetti Last Confess. 349 The..flame..has come to be The lapping blaze of hell's environment Whose tongues all bid the molten heart despair.
2. Of water, waves: Breaking gently on the shore, etc.; plashing softly.
1862M. Hopkins Hawaii 355 This Aphrodite stepping on shore from the lapping waters was instantly recognized as superlatively beautiful. 1873Black Pr. Thule xxvii. 454 The yacht..was cutting her placid way through the lapping waves. 1894Gladstone Horace, Odes iii. xvii, Where lapping Liris pours His current on Marica's shores.
▪ V. lapping, ppl. a.2|ˈlæpɪŋ|
[f. lap v.2 + -ing2.]
In senses of the vb.
1703T. N. City & C. Purchaser 195 He Soddereth the Lapping-sheet down to the other. 1839Ure Dict. Arts 215 To spread out the web as it is drawn over it by the rotation of the lapping roller. 1876Preece & Sivewright Telegraphy 222 The lapping wire was destroyed. |