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Answer for the clue "Meet and pass ", 8 letters:
crossing

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crossing \Cross"ing\, n. [See Cross , v. t. ] The act by which anything is crossed; as, the crossing of the ocean. The act of making the sign of the cross. --Bp. Hall. The act of interbreeding; a mixing of breeds. Intersection, as of two paths or roads. ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, "a marking with a cross," verbal noun from cross (v.). From 1570s as "action of passing across;" 1630s as "place where (a river, a road, etc.) is crossed;" from 1690s as "intersection" (originally of streets). Meaning "action of crossing out by drawing ...

Usage examples of crossing.

It was comforting to realize that this river had been crossing Absarokee hunting ground since before they had horses.

The road was as straight as a shot of grain alcohol, and the jackrabbits, well, each individual rabbit had the right to make his or her own choice when it came to crossing the path of an onrushing Airstream turkey.

The Akkadian raft-keepers clapped and cheered, shouting encouragements, seemingly unfazed by the crossing.

Then Alberta James went off - stage, Hubbard crossing to the door with her, an arm around her shoulders.

Capetus, Tiberinus, who, being drowned in crossing the river Albula, gave it a name famous with posterity.

I could now, that that man driving a European sports car rather too fast through the main highway nexus was probably a supporter of the Citizens of Vados, and that consequently the long-faced Amerind lighting a candle and crossing himself before the wall shrine in the market was prepared to hate him on principle.

SAS Radisson Hotel in downtown Amman, the border crossings from Jordan into Israel, and two Christian holy sites, at a time when all these locations were likely to be thronged with American and other tourists.

I found the Cossacks in the villages of that gorge in the greatest excitement, because thousands and thousands of fallow deer were crossing the Amur where it is narrowest, in order to reach the lowlands.

If I succeed in crossings new Cattleya, I plan to call it the Cicely Angleton after my wife.

A fair example of a transatlantic convoy crossing in June 1942 and of the comparatively slight improvement in antisubmarine warfare to that time, is furnished by the story of Convoy ONS-102, from Londonderry to Halifax.

Massawa, brought up to Asmara by train, and then for them to complete the long slow crossing of the Danakil.

I was glad, as I had not been very happy crossing the Voldan Ocean from Karis to Auris in the ancient crate that Gompth had furnished us.

On it lay a figure so heavily draped in copper ornament that Adica could barely make out that she had hair and features beneath a headdress of beaten copper, a broad pectoral, armbands, bracelets and a wide waistband worked into the shape of two axheads crossing.

He opened the gate from the saddle, and they passed through, crossing the barranco, and stopping for a moment to look at the pigs and talk with the herdsman.

Its mud walls were braced with crossing timbers as big as a full-grown man, and its ceiling was formed from whole basswood logs mounted on brackets.