lap
/læp/
Dictionary
noun
- The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
- An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth.
- The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered
- A place of rearing and fostering
- The upper legs of a seated person.
"The boy was sitting on his mother's lap."
- The female pudenda.
- A component that overlaps or covers any portion of itself or of an adjacent component.
verb
- To enfold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.
- To rest or recline in a lap, or as in a lap.
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