2. Verb. (third-person singular of lapper) ¹
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Definition of Lappers
1. lapper [v] - See also: lapper
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lappers
Literary usage of Lappers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Decisions on the Law of Patents for Inventions Rendered by [English Courts by United States Supreme Court, Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, Woodbury Lowery (1889)
"The said lappers, however, differ in their construction from lappers in other
... The parts, e, e, of the lappers may be attached to the other parts by ..."
2. Transactions of the National Association of Cotton Manufacturers by National Association of Cotton Manufacturers, New England Cotton Manufacturers' Association (1898)
"Breaker lappers, three-sixteenths (T'V) inch to one-fourth (#) inch; ... I would
also add that I believe in the near future our lappers will be improved by ..."
3. Senate Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Public Documents and Executive by United States Congress. Senate (1856)
"When the blank has arrived on the stand, the plunger P descends upon it, the
lappers rise to a vertical position, the plunger withdraws again, ..."
4. Quarterly Review (1810)
"It was at the same time deemed expedient to license a number of private lappers,
who were impowered to stamp such pieces only as were bleached in their own ..."
5. The New International Encyclopaedia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1906)
"The function of the lappers is to thoroughly loosen the lumps of cotton аз taken
from the bale, to remove dirt and dust and as much leaf, trash, ..."
6. The Plough, the Loom, and the Anvil (1855)
"3 contains 1 whipper; 3 cal vert-openers; 8 pickers; 76 breaker cards ; 74 finisher
do. ; 2 lappers, one for 42 cards, and one for 34 cards ; 8 railway ..."
7. Trades' Societies and Strikes by Committee on Trades' Societies (1860)
"GLASGOW CLOTH lappers. [Materials:—Answers by the Secretary to the questions
concerning Trade Unions and also Strikes ; Rules of Glasgow Cloth lappers' ..."
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