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Lamper vs Lapper - What's the difference?

lamper | lapper |

As nouns the difference between lamper and lapper

is that lamper is one who takes part in lamping, or hunting with bright lights while lapper is one who laps liquid, who takes liquid in with the tongue.

As a verb lapper is

to make a gentle splashing sound, as the sound of flowing water.

lamper

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who takes part in lamping, or hunting with bright lights.

    • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dialect) A lamprey.
    • ----

    lapper

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who laps liquid, who takes liquid in with the tongue.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1913 , author=William Atherton Du Puy , title= Uncle Sam, Wonder Worker , chapter= citation , isbn= , page=? , passage=...that recipient of the favors and caresses of the hearthstone, that lapper of milk from the national saucer, the cat.}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1827 , author=? , title=Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine , chapter= citation , isbn= , page=470 , passage=The pupils of the modern school discover in [the lion] but the crafty, cruel, and cowardly lapper of blood.}}
  • (in combination'') something (especially a race) that is a stated number of laps e.g. ''a 25-lapper
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2001 , author=Tim Bongard , title= Richard Petty: The Cars of the King , chapter= citation , isbn= , page=? , passage=...Richard Petty Private Collection outran Buck Baker's '62 Chrysler to win the 200-lapper. One week later, Jim Paschal finished second to race winner Junior.}}
  • (sports) A competitor who is one lap behind another, in the same race, and hence physically in front.
  • * June 2006 , RoadRacingWorld.com - Stanton Tops Formula Pacific Podium In Fourth Round Of AFM Racing At Thunderhill
    • After he tangled with the lapper I thought, ‘Man, that sucks’,” Dorsey explained. “Then I realized I was in the lead! I was going to just cruise home..
  • A mechanism that overlaps material to make it thicker; a lapping cylinder or lapping machine
  • (sailing) A headsail that overlaps the mast.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a gentle splashing sound, as the sound of flowing water.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1900? , author=S.R. Crockett , title=The Red Axe , chapter=XXXVII citation , isbn=0543961451 , page=238 , passage=There was mockery of our foolhardy enterprise in the soft whispering sough of the water, as I heard it lapper beneath the ferry-boat that lay ready to cross to the other side.}}

    Anagrams

    * ---- ==Jèrriais==

    Verb

    (roa-jer-verb)
  • to lap (a liquid)

    • Synonyms

    * (l)