单词 | to lap on to |
释义 | > as lemmasto lap on to (also over, upon) ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > cover [verb (transitive)] > partially to lap on to (also over, upon)1678 overlap1726 shingle1857 1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. ii. 18 Double the end of the Plate..over the wyre to lap over it. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth IV. 120 One edge sticks in the skin, while the other laps over that immediately behind it. 1776–96 W. Withering Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 399 Calyx segments lapping over each other. 1781 Ann. Reg. 1779 ii. 103/2 When either of the ends of any of the laths laps over other laths. 1843 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 4 i. 34 They should be laid as regularly as possible—one part lapping on to the next layer. 1846 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 7 i. 51 The four furrows..then lie two furrows right and left, lapping on to the furrow-slices thrown out of the old furrows. 1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 128 The mast-carlings are said to lap upon the beams by reason of their great depth; and head-ledges at the ends lap over the coamings. 1853 G. Johnston Terra Lindisfarnensis I. 263 They lap over rocks and shelving banks. 1854 W. K. Kelly tr. D. F. J. Arago Astron. 57 If the two images of the sun be made to lap over each other. < as lemmas |
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