Nap

Part of speech: noun (n.)

A short sleep; a doze; a siesta. Cowper.

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. Woolly or villous surface of felt, cloth, plants, etc.; an external covering of down, of short fine hairs or fibers forming part of the substance of anything, and lying smoothly in one direction; the pile; -- as, the nap of cotton flannel or of broadcloth.

2. The loops which are cut to make the pile, in velvet. Knight.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

1. To have a short sleep; to be drowsy; to doze. Chaucer.

2. To be in a careless, secure state. Wyclif. I took thee napping, unprepared. Hudibras.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To raise, or put, a nap on.