See speen on Wiktionary
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"english": "[…] for He smote the people of that town from the small to the great, and they had hemorrhoids in their secret parts.",
"text": "1637, 1 Samuel 5,9b, Statenvertaling.\n[…] want Hij sloeg de lieden dier stad van den kleine tot den grote, en zij hadden spenen in de verborgene plaatsen.",
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"A cow's teat."
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"text": "1637, 1 Samuel 5,9b, Statenvertaling.\n[…] want Hij sloeg de lieden dier stad van den kleine tot den grote, en zij hadden spenen in de verborgene plaatsen.",
"translation": "[…] for He smote the people of that town from the small to the great, and they had hemorrhoids in their secret parts.",
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