"reredemain" meaning in All languages combined

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        "3": "reremayne"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English reremayne",
      "name": "inh"
    },
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      "args": {
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        "3": "reremein"
      },
      "expansion": "Anglo-Norman reremein",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English reremayne, reremayn, probably from Anglo-Norman reremein, variant of areremein, from arere (“back, backwards”) + main (“hand”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "reredemains",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "reredemain (plural reredemains)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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        {
          "ref": "1512-1519, Sir Thomas More, “The tragicall historie of King Richard the Third”, in The historie of the pitifull life, and unfortunate death of Edward the Fifth, and the then Duke of Yorke, his brother with the troublesome and tyrannical government of usurping Richard the Third, and his miserable end, page 268",
          "text": "But all such plagues, calamities and troubles[…]I shall with a reredemaine so make them rebound to our common enemie that calleth himselfe King.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1607, Lodovico Ariosto, translated by Sir John Harington, Orlando furioso, book 16, verse 50",
          "roman": "Whence neither of them rose aliue againe:",
          "text": "And such a blow he lent him as he past,\nVpon his shoulders from the reredemaine,\nThat horse and man vnto the ground were cast,",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1965, Martín del Barco Centenera, translated by Walter Owen, The Argentine and the Conquest of the River Plate, page 168",
          "text": "[…]he that day\nDid execution on the heathen foe,\nWorthy of fame, for with one dexterous slash\nHe twains Carrillo, then a reredemain\nLops off an arm of Roco, Indian fierce and brave.",
          "type": "quotation"
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        "A backward stroke of the hand."
      ],
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          "hand"
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        "(archaic) A backward stroke of the hand."
      ],
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        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "reredemain"
}

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      },
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
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        "3": "reremein"
      },
      "expansion": "Anglo-Norman reremein",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English reremayne, reremayn, probably from Anglo-Norman reremein, variant of areremein, from arere (“back, backwards”) + main (“hand”).",
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        "plural"
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  "pos": "noun",
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        "English terms derived from Middle English",
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        {
          "ref": "1512-1519, Sir Thomas More, “The tragicall historie of King Richard the Third”, in The historie of the pitifull life, and unfortunate death of Edward the Fifth, and the then Duke of Yorke, his brother with the troublesome and tyrannical government of usurping Richard the Third, and his miserable end, page 268",
          "text": "But all such plagues, calamities and troubles[…]I shall with a reredemaine so make them rebound to our common enemie that calleth himselfe King.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1607, Lodovico Ariosto, translated by Sir John Harington, Orlando furioso, book 16, verse 50",
          "roman": "Whence neither of them rose aliue againe:",
          "text": "And such a blow he lent him as he past,\nVpon his shoulders from the reredemaine,\nThat horse and man vnto the ground were cast,",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1965, Martín del Barco Centenera, translated by Walter Owen, The Argentine and the Conquest of the River Plate, page 168",
          "text": "[…]he that day\nDid execution on the heathen foe,\nWorthy of fame, for with one dexterous slash\nHe twains Carrillo, then a reredemain\nLops off an arm of Roco, Indian fierce and brave.",
          "type": "quotation"
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        "A backward stroke of the hand."
      ],
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        "(archaic) A backward stroke of the hand."
      ],
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  "word": "reredemain"
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