Lipping [verb]

Not far distant Winton lay stretched along a fir-shadowed rock, the slime-green base of which was washed by the lipping waves.

A tongue of this type acts as an extra tenon and prevents the joint from "lipping" (becoming uneven) on the face side.

Fig. 216 is a scarfed joint with undercut vee'd ends which prevent the joint from lipping up or down or sideways.

Then there was a pause with no sound but the gentle lipping of the water against the sides of the pirate vessel.

The road followed the curving ditch; their voices were tuned to lipping water and the drone of bees.

Her bosom rose and fell hastily, like short waves lipping a wharf.

There came a twitch, more twitches, 65 but so gentle you would have vowed 'twas a tender-mouthed minnow lipping the line.

When a portion of the “lipping” is broken off, it may give rise to a loose body.

The first little rivulet that trickled forth from their lipping fulness would be the signal of their destruction.

The differences between them were made up of crude difference of speech, of the actual lipping of feelings and phrases.