"quillion" meaning in All languages combined

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "quillions",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "quillion (plural quillions)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "quill‧i‧on"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "quillon"
        }
      ],
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
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          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
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          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1895, W. Kerr Smith, “Armour. A Paper Communicated to the Thoresby Society”, in The Publications of the Thoresby Society, volume IV (Miscellanea […]), Leeds, West Yorkshire: [Thoresby Society], →OCLC, page 123:",
          "text": "[T]he simpler form of sword, with plain quillions, gives way to the more graceful rapier, or the English broadsword, with circular hand-guard.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1921, George Younghusband, “The Regalia—continued”, in The Jewel House: An Account of the Many Romances Connected with the Royal Regalia […], London: Herbert Jenkins […], →OCLC, page 53:",
          "text": "The Sword of State which is carried before the King at the opening of Parliament is quite a different weapon. It is a long, two-handed sword, with a gold hilt and quillion, and is encased in a crimson velvet scabbard. […] The quillion of the sword is formed of an elongated lion on one side, and a similarly maltreated unicorn on the other.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1981, Rosemary Sutcliff, “The Sword in the Stone”, in The Sword and the Circle: King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton, →ISBN, page 27:",
          "text": "Then Arthur took the sword two-handed by its quillions. There was golden writing on the stone, but he did not stop to read it. The sword seemed to thrill under his touch as a harp thrills in response to its master's hand.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Julian Stockwin, chapter 2, in Tenacious, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN, page 30:",
          "text": "'You will remark the short quillion on this piece,' he added, touching the sword crosspiece. 'More to your sea tastes, I believe. And the grips—for a fighting sword we have ivory, filigree—'",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of quillon"
      ],
      "id": "en-quillion-en-noun-RjPZbDES",
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        [
          "quillon",
          "quillon#English"
        ]
      ],
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      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkwɪ.lɪ.ən/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkwɪ.li.ən/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "quillion"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "quillions",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "quillion (plural quillions)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "quill‧i‧on"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "quillon"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1895, W. Kerr Smith, “Armour. A Paper Communicated to the Thoresby Society”, in The Publications of the Thoresby Society, volume IV (Miscellanea […]), Leeds, West Yorkshire: [Thoresby Society], →OCLC, page 123:",
          "text": "[T]he simpler form of sword, with plain quillions, gives way to the more graceful rapier, or the English broadsword, with circular hand-guard.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1921, George Younghusband, “The Regalia—continued”, in The Jewel House: An Account of the Many Romances Connected with the Royal Regalia […], London: Herbert Jenkins […], →OCLC, page 53:",
          "text": "The Sword of State which is carried before the King at the opening of Parliament is quite a different weapon. It is a long, two-handed sword, with a gold hilt and quillion, and is encased in a crimson velvet scabbard. […] The quillion of the sword is formed of an elongated lion on one side, and a similarly maltreated unicorn on the other.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1981, Rosemary Sutcliff, “The Sword in the Stone”, in The Sword and the Circle: King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton, →ISBN, page 27:",
          "text": "Then Arthur took the sword two-handed by its quillions. There was golden writing on the stone, but he did not stop to read it. The sword seemed to thrill under his touch as a harp thrills in response to its master's hand.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Julian Stockwin, chapter 2, in Tenacious, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN, page 30:",
          "text": "'You will remark the short quillion on this piece,' he added, touching the sword crosspiece. 'More to your sea tastes, I believe. And the grips—for a fighting sword we have ivory, filigree—'",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of quillon"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "quillon",
          "quillon#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkwɪ.lɪ.ən/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkwɪ.li.ən/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "quillion"
}