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Lamping vs Lapping - What's the difference?

lamping | lapping |

As nouns the difference between lamping and lapping

is that lamping is a form of hunting, at night, in which bright lights or lamps are used to dazzle the hunted animal while lapping is a kind of machine blanket or wrapping material used by calico printers.

As an adjective lamping

is bright, flashing, resplendent.

As a verb lapping is

present participle of lang=en.

lamping

English

Noun

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  • A form of hunting, at night, in which bright lights or lamps are used to dazzle the hunted animal.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (archaic) Bright, flashing, resplendent.
  • *1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.3:
  • *:Most sacred fire, that burnest mightily / In liuing brests, ykindled first aboue, / Emongst th'eternall spheres and lamping sky [...]!

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    lapping

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Derived terms

    * lapping engine, lapping machine

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A kind of machine blanket or wrapping material used by calico printers.
    • (Ure)

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