"hot water can" meaning in All languages combined

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    {
      "form": "hot water cans",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1889, Helen Harcourt, chapter 11, in Home Life in Florida, Louisville, Kentucky: John P. Morton, page 178",
          "text": "The rest of us were glad to creep between blankets, with a mountain of covers on top, and a hot water can inside. What a tale to tell of balmy Florida!",
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        },
        {
          "text": "1899, “Australian Prison Discipline,” condensed from an article in Colonial Empire, Shanghai, in Public Opinion, New York, Volume 26, No. 6, p. 174,\nA third warder proceeds along the doors with a hot water can, and each prisoner who by good conduct has earned the privilege of tea and sugar is supplied with the water to make his tea."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1908, E. M. Forster, A Room with a View, Part 1, Chapter 3, p. 50",
          "text": "Oh, dear Miss Honeychurch, you will catch a chill! And Mr. Beebe here besides. Who would suppose this is Italy? There is my sister actually nursing the hot-water can; no comforts or proper provisions.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1910, William J. Locke, A Christmas Mystery, New York: John Lane, page 28",
          "text": "After weary waiting at Plymouth they took their seats in the little, cold local train that was to carry them another stage on their journey. Hot-water cans put in at Plymouth mitigated to some extent the iciness of the compartment.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1942, Siegfried Sassoon, chapter 3, in The Weald of Youth, London: Faber & Faber, published 1943, page 44",
          "text": "Anyhow, here I am […] quite in the mood to revisit one of those Queen Anne country houses where I awoke on the morning after a dance and drowsily observed the discreet man-servant putting a hot-water can into the hip-bath, wondering whether he was expecting me to give him half-a-sovereign or whether five bob would be decent […]",
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        "A can (often with a spout and handle) filled with hot water, used to warm a room, to keep one's feet warm, or to supply water for such things as shaving, washing, etc."
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          "handle"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical) A can (often with a spout and handle) filled with hot water, used to warm a room, to keep one's feet warm, or to supply water for such things as shaving, washing, etc."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "hot-water can"
        },
        {
          "word": "hotwater can"
        }
      ],
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      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "can filled with hot water",
          "word": "kuumavesikannu"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hot water can"
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  "pos": "noun",
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1889, Helen Harcourt, chapter 11, in Home Life in Florida, Louisville, Kentucky: John P. Morton, page 178",
          "text": "The rest of us were glad to creep between blankets, with a mountain of covers on top, and a hot water can inside. What a tale to tell of balmy Florida!",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "1899, “Australian Prison Discipline,” condensed from an article in Colonial Empire, Shanghai, in Public Opinion, New York, Volume 26, No. 6, p. 174,\nA third warder proceeds along the doors with a hot water can, and each prisoner who by good conduct has earned the privilege of tea and sugar is supplied with the water to make his tea."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1908, E. M. Forster, A Room with a View, Part 1, Chapter 3, p. 50",
          "text": "Oh, dear Miss Honeychurch, you will catch a chill! And Mr. Beebe here besides. Who would suppose this is Italy? There is my sister actually nursing the hot-water can; no comforts or proper provisions.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1910, William J. Locke, A Christmas Mystery, New York: John Lane, page 28",
          "text": "After weary waiting at Plymouth they took their seats in the little, cold local train that was to carry them another stage on their journey. Hot-water cans put in at Plymouth mitigated to some extent the iciness of the compartment.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1942, Siegfried Sassoon, chapter 3, in The Weald of Youth, London: Faber & Faber, published 1943, page 44",
          "text": "Anyhow, here I am […] quite in the mood to revisit one of those Queen Anne country houses where I awoke on the morning after a dance and drowsily observed the discreet man-servant putting a hot-water can into the hip-bath, wondering whether he was expecting me to give him half-a-sovereign or whether five bob would be decent […]",
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        "A can (often with a spout and handle) filled with hot water, used to warm a room, to keep one's feet warm, or to supply water for such things as shaving, washing, etc."
      ],
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        "(historical) A can (often with a spout and handle) filled with hot water, used to warm a room, to keep one's feet warm, or to supply water for such things as shaving, washing, etc."
      ],
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    {
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      "word": "hotwater can"
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "can filled with hot water",
      "word": "kuumavesikannu"
    }
  ],
  "word": "hot water can"
}