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On a spit, say
Answer for the clue "On a spit, say ", 8 letters:
rotating
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
that proceeds in sequence or in turns v (present participle of rotate English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rotate \Ro"tate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Rotated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Rotating .] To turn, as a wheel, round an axis; to revolve. To perform any act, function, or operation in turn, to hold office in turn; as, to rotate in office.
Usage examples of rotating.
The screw aft of the rudder, a moment before pumping water forward, slowed, stopped and began rotating in the opposite direction, now pumping water aft, thrusting the ship forward.
But now, with the islands rotating - no matter how slowly - even that could not be relied upon, and the alongshore races were alarmingly unpredictable.
Pumps had no rotating parts and pushed the coolant through the loops using magnetism.
She walked in a circle around Lady Sunshine, while Lady Sunshine watched her with a wary rotating eye, ready to lurch if the dryad attempted to move in her direction.
He was coming up beneath its tail, and with luck the empennage would shield him from the rotating radar antenna.
She certainly preferred a letter to a mistimed telephone call, for the family, when far away as they were all far away now, were not at all adept at calculating the difference in hours between their time zones and her own-even when earlier, holding and rotating apples plucked from the epergne, they attempted to work out which way it was the globe turned and whether they should add or subtract a three or a six or a twelve from the local time told on their wristwatch faces.
The ergosphere was a rotating fat waist in he diagram, but ahead bulged something spitting light like an angry, etting sun.
Crusher turned away, looking at the fullerene rotating, planetlike, on her screen.
The arms turned inward on themselves, rotating on universal gimbals so that the evacuated hold yawned before them, and the cradle came up on its tracks to meet them.
There, in living color, rotating slowly in three dimensional motion, was a stainless-steel cylinder with a knurled cap at each end.
Her fifth transfer was given by Halimer Grant, inaugurating a series of unspectacular routine transfers rotating between Landar, Grant, and two fairly competent Firsts who always left her in a mild discomfort she had to learn to ignore.
This usually means breaking it open, but what I figured out was that if I inject it with magnetised iron filings in a lecithin emulsion, then stick it in a rotating magnetic field, I can churn it up quite effectively.
The Meanie spun off the road to the left, rotating as it went, and came to rest, nose out, precisely in the truck-sized carpark that had been shoveled out for it, its rear wheels nestled right up against the log barrier.
A whole new world seemed to open before him from then on, he was constantly finding things pierced and rotating on pivots.
Yull and Omber dismissed such shows as trivial, and paid far more attention to experiments with a practical application: gradient separation of similar organic molecules, for instance, and the use of rotating pull-stones to prove that the fields they generated were intimately related to sparkforce, though as yet nobody had satisfactorily explained how.