Gently lapping waves on a white sand beach. Rodriguez was lapping backmarkers by just the second lap. Lapping and sanding are subsets of grinding. Coulthard went wide while lapping a backmarker on lap 33, and Hill edged ahead. After being cut the gear can be finished by shaving, burnishing, grinding, honing or lapping. The cutting of the blocks to size is accomplished with grinding followed by lapping. Hummingbirds drink with their long tongues by rapidly lapping nectar. Back home, Johansson converted his wife's Singer sewing machine to a grinding and lapping machine. Those on dries were lapping as quick as those on wets. Petty and Beauchamp were lapping Joe Weatherly at the finish. They were lapping other runners, and Clarke was boxed in down the backstretch. The small plate shown in the first picture is a hand lapping plate. Gold Star for lapping the circuit at over . The second picture is of a commercially available lapping machine. By 2006 however, F2s were faster than this lapping at .