"Lap" is a word in ENGLISH

To make a sound like that produced by taking up drink with
the tongue.

The sound of lapping.

To wrap or wind around something.

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

To be turned or folded; to lie partly upon or by the side
of something, or of one another; as, the cloth laps back; the boats
lap; the edges lap.

To fold; to bend and lay over or on something; as, to lap a
piece of cloth.

The act of lapping with, or as with, the tongue; as, to take
anything into the mouth with a lap.

To rest or recline in a lap, or as in a lap.

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.

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.

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.

To take up drink or food with the tongue; to drink or feed
by licking up something.

To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc.
See 1st Lap, 10.

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

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.

To infold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.

To lay or place over anything so as to partly or wholly cover
it; as, to lap one shingle over another; to lay together one partly
over another; as, to lap weather-boards; also, to be partly over, or by
the side of (something); as, the hinder boat lapped the foremost one.

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 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.

To take into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a
quick motion of the tongue.

To lay together one over another, as fleeces or slivers for
further working.