lap
//læp//
Forms
- Plural
- laps
- present (v1)
- lap
- past (v2)
- lapped
- past participle (v3)
- lapped
- present participle
- lapping
- 3rd person singular
- laps
Definitions
1.The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
2.An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth.
3.The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered.
4.A place of rearing and fostering.
1.To fold; to bend and lay over or on something.
2.to wrap around, enwrap, wrap up
- About the paper […] I lapped several times a slender thread of very black silk.
3.To enfold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.
- Her garment spreads, and laps him in the fold.
4.To rest or recline in someone's lap, or as in a lap.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #3792
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Uncommon
Related words
Word family
Etymology
From Middle English lappe, from Old English læppa (“skirt or flap of a garment”), from Proto-West Germanic *lappō, from Proto-Germanic *lappô (“cloth; rag”), of uncertain origin, possibly Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“to hang loosely”).