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"word": "թակ"
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"roman": "dǎrven čuk",
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"roman": "chuí",
"sense": "small maul",
"word": "槌"
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"word": "maleo"
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"sense": "small maul",
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"sense": "small maul",
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"word": "pisón"
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"note": "of wood",
"sense": "small maul",
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"word": "Holzhammer"
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"sense": "small maul",
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"word": "Klopfholz"
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"note": "of rubber",
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"word": "Gummihammer"
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"roman": "matsóla",
"sense": "small maul",
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"roman": "sphûra",
"sense": "small maul",
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"word": "σφῦρα"
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"sense": "small maul",
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"word": "maglio"
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"sense": "small maul",
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"word": "mazzetta"
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"sense": "small maul",
"word": "木槌"
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"word": "malleus"
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"word": "gandin"
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"word": "tukul kayu"
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"sense": "small maul",
"word": "kuru"
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"roman": "kodin",
"sense": "small maul",
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"word": "obijak"
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"sense": "small maul",
"tags": [
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"word": "malho"
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"sense": "small maul",
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"roman": "kijánka",
"sense": "small maul",
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"word": "кия́нка"
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"roman": "derevjánnyj molotók",
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"word": "klubba"
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"sense": "small maul",
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"ref": "1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 51",
"text": "The Mallet of arms, according to the representation of it given by Father Daniel, exactly resembles the wooden instrument of that name, now in use, except in the length of the handle, it was like the hammer of arms, to be used with both hands, indeed it differed very little from that weapon in its form.",
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"sense": "weapon resembling the tool",
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"sense": "instrument for playing polo",
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"sense": "instrument for playing polo",
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"ref": "2016 September 13, Tim Dowling, “Order force: the old grammar rule we all obey without realising”, in The Guardian",
"text": "I regularly have cause to recall a scene from a novel called Madder Music, by Peter de Vries, in which the main character, a writer who specialises in polo, hears a match announcer telling newcomers to the ground that, contrary to popular belief, the ball is struck with the side of the mallet, rather than the end.",
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},
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"_dis1": "10 10 34 36 9",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "instrument for playing croquet",
"word": "maila"
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{
"_dis1": "10 10 34 36 9",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "instrument for playing croquet",
"word": "ütő"
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{
"_dis1": "10 10 34 36 9",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "instrument for playing croquet",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mazza da croquet"
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"_dis1": "10 10 34 36 9",
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "instrument for playing croquet",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "kølle"
},
{
"_dis1": "10 10 34 36 9",
"alt": "в кроке́те",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "molotók",
"sense": "instrument for playing croquet",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "молото́к"
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},
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},
{
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"3": "",
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"2": "la",
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"4": "",
"5": "a hammer, mall, mallet"
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"name": "der"
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"form": "mallets",
"tags": [
"present",
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"third-person"
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},
{
"form": "malleting",
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"participle",
"present"
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},
{
"form": "malleted",
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"participle",
"past"
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},
{
"form": "malleted",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
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],
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"pos": "verb",
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{
"word": "malleable"
},
{
"word": "malleate"
}
],
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{
"categories": [
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"English transitive verbs",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
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{
"ref": "2007, John Geddes, Highway to Hell, page 220",
"text": "[…] and when a couple of insurgents ran in to make the capture she malleted them with her rifle.",
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}
],
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],
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],
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"(transitive) To beat or strike with, or as if with, a mallet."
],
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}
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"ipa": "/ˈmælɪt/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ælɪt"
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"tags": [
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{
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"word": "mālō"
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