See keep off on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1954 March, W. A. Tuplin, “Recollections of the Wirral Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 167:",
"text": "\"Keep off Conductor Rails\" said red-painted notices at the platform ends, for third-rails were laid in many places even where electric trains never normally ran, and there had been many rumours of impending electrification of the Wirral, as a natural extension of the Mersey system, a quarter of a century before the change was actually made.",
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"(ambitransitive) To stay or cause to stay at a distance (from)."
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"sense": "to stay or cause to stay at a distance (from)",
"word": "fernhalten"
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"sense": "to stay or cause to stay at a distance (from)",
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"sense": "to stay or cause to stay at a distance (from)",
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"word": "keep off"
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"sense": "to stay or cause to stay at a distance (from)",
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"sense": "to stay or cause to stay at a distance (from)",
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"sense": "to stay or cause to stay at a distance (from)",
"word": "hålla borta"
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"word": "keep off"
}
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