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.

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.

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.

The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when
one sits down; that part of the person thus covered; figuratively, a
place of rearing and fostering; as, to be reared in the lap of luxury.

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.