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Answer for the clue "Pass the tongue over ", 7 letters:
lapping

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Word definitions for lapping in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. lie partly over or alongside of something or of one another pass the tongue over; "the dog licked her hand" [syn: lick ] move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound; "The bubbles swoshed around in the glass"; "The curtain swooshed open" ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Lapping is a machining operation, in which two surfaces are rubbed together with an abrasive between them, by hand movement or by way of a machine. Lapping may also refer to: Lapping (motorsport) , the act of passing someone who is one circuit of the racecourse ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lapping \Lap"ping\, n. A kind of machine blanket or wrapping material used by calico printers. --Ure. Lapping engine , Lapping machine (Textile Manuf.), A machine for forming fiber info a lap. See its Lap , 9.

Usage examples of lapping.

This made Raymo a figure of respect among his fellow prisoners during the twenty months they would spend in the fortress of La Cabana listening to rifle reports from the moat, where the executions took place, each crisp volley followed by a precise echo, an afterclap, as the prisoners thought about the dog that lived in the moat, lapping up blood.

It was a scene from a vision of Fuseli, and over all the rest reigned that riot of luminous amorphousness, that alien and undimensioned rainbow of cryptic poison from the well--seething, feeling, lapping, reaching, scintillating, straining, and malignly bubbling in its cosmic and unrecognizable chromaticism.

Where Anele pointed, in a notch between slick stones at the lapping edge of the water, lay a roughly triangular patch of fine sand.

It crept up on the gasolene car, as an express train overtakes a freight, and the man, looking back, and expecting to see his rival far behind was surprised to note the queer looking vehicle lapping his rear wheels.

Now the electric was lapping the rear wheels of the gasolene machine, but the driver did not know it.

The dog had found the rumored spring beneath the tower and had lain beside it, lapping at the cool water to stay alive.

The soothing mixture of the faint reggae beat blended with the lapping of the ocean waves whisking her away.

First came the Gestapo man who had arrested Eva and me when we were bathing out by the mouth of the Weser, and the summery sound of lazily lapping waves suddenly imposed itself upon the proceedings in court.

Another wampus already was swimming steadily toward open ocean, its back loaded with people and supplies, the ice-strewn water lapping threateningly close to the passengers it transported.

Aleytys, the lapping power, the small burry fields of Shadith, the bones began to knit together as Aleytys held the bits in place, the torn flesh began to repair itself.

Outside on the casing Quinton stooped to peer at the water lapping along the saddle tank.

Lapping and licking, his tongue avidly worked down from her clit, until it teased the scalloped inner lips of her vagina.

The river was fuller than Yama remembered it, lapping at the margin of the city, covering the shore where in the near future there would be wide mud flats and a scurf of shanty towns.

Even that commerce was but occasional, and through three-fourths of its rising tides the dirty indecorous drab of a river would come solitarily oozing and lapping at the rusty ring, as if it had heard of the Doge and the Adriatic, and wanted to be married to the great conserver of its filthiness, the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor.

All the wers were ablaze, with white fire running along their backs and lapping down their sides, and they snapped and howled like mad things and bolted away from the flames.