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belapping

belapping is the present participle and gerund of belap.

Meaning of belap

Verb

belap (third-person singular simple present belaps, present participle belapping, simple past and past participle belapped)

  1. (obsolete, transitive, chiefly passive voice) To lap or wrap around (someone or something); to envelop, to surround.
    • There was redy in a wode / Two hundurde knyghtys, þat were gode. / Owte of the wode þey came anon / And belapped vs euerychon.[15th century, Julius Zupitza, editor, The Romance of Guy of Warwick. The Second or 15th-century Version. […] (Extra Series; XXV–XXVI) (in Middle English), London: […] [F]or the Early English Text...
    Synonyms:
    enfold, environ, lap, umbelap

Questions about belapping

What is belapping the present participle and gerund of?
Belapping is the present participle and gerund of belap.

Words near belapping in the dictionary

  1. Belansky
  2. belantamab mafodotin
  3. belap
  4. belaperidone
  5. belapped
  6. belapping
  7. belaps
  8. belar
  9. Belardo
  10. Belardos
  11. Belarra

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