Meaning

6 senses
  1. One who laps liquid, who takes liquid in with the tongue.

  2. (in compounds)Something (especially a race) that has a stated number of laps.

  3. A competitor who is one lap behind another, in the same race, and hence physically in front.

  4. One who wraps or folds.

  5. A mechanism that overlaps material to make it thicker; a lapping cylinder or lapping machine.

  6. A headsail that overlaps the mast.

Origin

From lap + -er.

From lap + -er.

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Forms

plural: lappers
Singularlapper
Plurallappers

regular

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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