Definition of "lapper" [lap•per]

• One who laps liquid, who takes liquid in with his tongue. (noun)
• Something (especially a race) that is a stated number of laps e.g. a 25-lapper (noun)
• A competitor who is one lap behind another, in the same race, and hence physically in front. (noun)
• A mechanism that overlaps material to make it thicker; a lapping cylinder or lapping machine (noun)
• To make a gentle splashing sound, as the sound of flowing water. (verb)

Wiktionary.org : Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

• "Next the cotton is fed into a "lapper," which continues the work of untangling the fibers, removing impurities, including broken ends or short lint."
• "The "lapper" has been featured in several home magazines and design blogs."
• "But on this night, waiting for the dew, a little of it, to become more, on the surfaces that were mine, I heard the noises of a dew-lapper moving aft along the port - gunwale -- which was my property aft of the stroke-thwart clear to the stern."