The Clue
"I hear lake water ___": Yeats (7 letter answer)
The Answer
LAPPING
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Notes
The answer LAPPING is so rare that it appears less than once every 2500 puzzles.
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Folding
Definition
LAPPING as a noun:
1. (imbrication, overlapping, lapping) = covering with a design in which one element covers a part of another (as with tiles or shingles)
LAP as a verb:
1. lie partly over or alongside of something or of one another
2. (lick, lap) = pass the tongue over; "the dog licked her hand"
3. (lap, swish, swosh, swoosh) = move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound; "The bubbles swoshed around in the glass"; "The curtain swooshed open"
4. (lap, lap up, lick) = take up with the tongue; "The cat lapped up the milk"; "the cub licked the milk from its mother's breast"
5. (lave, lap, wash) = wash or flow against; "the waves laved the shore"