different between belah vs belap

English

From Wiradhuri.

belah (uncountable)

From Middle English bilappen, equivalent to be- (“around, about”) +? lap (“to wrap, fold”).

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

(transitive) To wrap or lap around; surround; envelope.
- 1891, Leroy Milton Yale, Marion Harland, Babyhood: the mother's nursery guide: Volume 7:
  Following the traditions of my elders and much of the advice which is generally so freely offered to young mothers, I fashioned skirts with bands so wide and cumbersome, so much belapped and pinned, as to reduce the unfortunate babe to semblance of a small mummy.

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