lap

1. (transitive) To enfold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.Examples: "Her garment spreads, and laps him in the fold."transitive

2. (transitive) To rest or recline in someone's lap, or as in a lap.Examples: "to lap his head on lady's breast"transitive

1. (transitive) To fold; to bend and lay over or on something.Examples: "to lap a piece of cloth"transitive

2. (transitive) to wrap around, enwrap, wrap upExamples: "to lap a bandage around a finger"; "About the paper […] I lapped several times a slender thread of very black silk."transitive

3. (transitive) to envelop, enfoldExamples: "lapped in luxury"transitive

4. (intransitive) to wind aroundintransitive

5. (transitive) To place or lay (one thing) so as to overlap another.Examples: "One laps roof tiles so that water can run off."transitive

6. (transitive) To polish (a surface, especially metal or gemstone) with very fine abrasive to achieve smoothness and small dimensional changes.transitive

1. (sports) One circuit around a race track.Examples: "to run twenty laps"; "to drive the fastest lap in qualifying"; "to win by three laps"

2. (swimming) The traversal of one length of the pool, or (less commonly) one length and back again.Examples: "to swim two laps"

1. (ambitransitive) To take (liquid) into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a quick motion of the tongue.Examples: "Don’t lap your soup like that! You look like a dog."; "They'll take suggestion as a cat laps milk."; "The dogs by the River Nilus's side, being thirsty, lap hastily […]as they run along the shore."ambitransitive

2. (intransitive, of water) To wash against a surface with a splashing sound; to swash.Examples: "I heard the ripple washing in the reeds, / And the wild water lapping on the crag."intransitive

1. (obsolete, slang, uncountable) Liquor; alcoholic drink.obsoleteslanguncountable