ppl. a. [f. LAP v.2 + -ED1.] In senses of the vb. † a. Wrapped up, disguised. b. fig. Lulled. c. Formed with, or arranged so as to form a lap or laps.
1637. Gillespie, Eng.-Pop. Cerem., Ep. A ij b. The lapped Nicodemite, holdes it enough to yeeld some secret assent to the trueth.
1825. J. Nicholson, Operat. Mechanic, 589. Fig. 602, a lapped and tongued mitre.
1850. S. Dobell, Roman, viii. Poet. Wks. 1875, I. 161/2. The lapp’d sense in soft confusion own’d Redolent light.
1869. Sir E. Reed, Shipbuild., i. § 7. The plating of the bottom was made flush from this point to above the turn of the bilge, by plates worked between the lapped edges of the outer over-lapping plates of the bottom.
