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Answer for the clue "Poetaster's activity ", 6 letters:
riming

Word definitions for riming in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rime \Rime\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Rimed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Riming .] To freeze or congeal into hoarfrost.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. having corrnesponding sounds especially terminal sounds; "rhymed verse"; "rhyming words" [syn: rhymed , rhyming ] [ant: unrhymed ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 vb. (present participle of rime English) Etymology 2 (context rare English) That (l en rime rimes) (''i.e.'', covers with rime or hoar frost) something. Etymology 3 n. (context Irish English now rare done to wool or yarn English) The (l en action) ...

Usage examples of riming.

And running through the knifing cold, snowflakes riming his lashes, blinding him, making him think, oddly, of Kathy, his college sweetheart, his wife.

Sweat froze along their backs, riming them, making them into creatures of the winter countryside.

During the night, fog had frozen on the fallen leaves and spiky turf, riming the world in sparkling hoarfrost.

The music was paced at about a hundred beats a minute, Sax calculated, perfect physiological riming for stimulating the heart just a bit.