English dictionary
tonguing
/'t/@//N//I//N/
Definitions, examples, synonyms and antonyms from WordNet 3.0.
verb
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Modification of tone for a rapid staccato effect by the performer's tongue, in playing a wind instrument, as a flute. In <i>single tonguing</i> only one kind of stroke is used, the tongue articulating a rapid "t;" in <i>double tonguing</i>, two strokes, as for "t" and "k," are alternated; in <i>triple tonguing</i>, "t, k, t," etc.
Source: webster1913