Lap lap

Lap lap (sometimes spelled laplap) is the national dish of Vanuatu. Laplap is prepared by pounding taro or yam roots into a paste, followed by cooking them with fresh coconut cream with some pork, beef, chicken or flying fox in taro or spinach leaves in an underground oven.

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Lap-lap

A lap-lap is a waistcloth or loincloth worn in Papua New Guinea and the South Pacific. This item of clothing has three parts: a front flap, a back flap, and a thread to tie them around the waist. The sides are generally open. How much is covered by the front and back flaps varies.

Related to the lap-lap is the lava-lava, which is an all-round rectangular cloth worn like a kilt or skirt by Polynesians.

Lap

A lap is a surface (usually horizontal) created between the knee and hips of a biped when it is in a seated or lying down position.

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Lap (disambiguation)

A lap is the area on top of the thighs of a sitting person.

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Lapping

Lapping is a machining process, in which two surfaces are rubbed together with an abrasive between them, by hand movement or using a machine.

This can take two forms. The first type of lapping (traditionally called grinding), involves rubbing a brittle material such as glass against a surface such as iron or glass itself (also known as the "lap" or grinding tool) with an abrasive such as aluminum oxide, jeweller's rouge, optician's rouge, emery, silicon carbide, diamond, etc., between them. This produces microscopic conchoidal fractures as the abrasive rolls about between the two surfaces and removes material from both.

The other form of lapping involves a softer material such as pitch or a ceramic for the lap, which is "charged" with the abrasive. The lap is then used to cut a harder material — the workpiece. The abrasive embeds within the softer material, which holds it and permits it to score across and cut the harder material. Taken to a finer limit, this will produce a polished surface such as with a polishing cloth on an automobile, or a polishing cloth or polishing pitch upon glass or steel.