A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the
carding machine.

A piece of brass, lead, or other soft metal, used to hold a
cutting or polishing powder in cutting glass, gems, and the like, or in
polishing cutlery, etc. It is usually in the form of wheel or disk,
which revolves on a vertical axis.

The amount by which a slide valve at its half stroke overlaps
a port in the seat, being equal to the distance the valve must move
from its mid stroke position in order to begin to open the port. Used
alone, lap refers to outside lap. See Outside lap (below).

In card playing and other games, the points won in excess of
the number necessary to complete a game; – so called when they are
counted in the score of the following game.

The state or condition of being in part extended over or by
the side of something else; or the extent of the overlapping; as, the
second boat got a lap of half its length on the leader.

That part of any substance or fixture which extends over, or
lies upon, or by the side of, a part of another; as, the lap of a
board; also, the measure of such extension over or upon another thing.

The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that
plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.

f. katlamak, dolamak; yalayarak içmek, şapırdatmak; tur bindirmek. The cats were lapping the milk. (Kediler sütü yalayarak içiyordu.)

An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth.

One circuit around a race track, esp. when the distance is a
small fraction of a mile; as, to run twenty laps; to win by three laps.
See Lap, to fold, 2.