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belaps

belaps is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 belaps

What is belaps the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Belaps is the third-person singular simple present indicative of belap.

Words near belaps in the dictionary

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

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