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"qualifier": "boating slang",
"raw_glosses": [
"(boating slang) To use a British Seagull outboard."
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"New Zealand English"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1964, O. E. Middleton, A Walk on the Beach, M. Joseph, page 215",
"text": "Bill had been seagulling on the wharf since he got back from the war.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1981, Parliamentary Debates, volume 437, page 374",
"text": "At that time many of them seagulled on the Mt Maunganui wharf to make a crust in order to carry on with their ideal of kiwifruit as a major exporting industry.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1993, Beryl Fletcher, The Iron Mouth, Spinifex Press, published 1993, page 60",
"text": "The only stories he told of his life were of how hard he had worked, seagulling on the wharf, standing in blood and guts at the Works, loading trucks with sacks of fertiliser and grain at the Farmers' Co-op.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To work as a non-union casual stevedore."
],
"links": [
[
"union",
"union"
],
[
"stevedore",
"stevedore"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(New Zealand) To work as a non-union casual stevedore."
],
"tags": [
"New-Zealand"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈsiː.ɡʌl/",
"tags": [
"General-American",
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-us-seagull.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/05/En-us-seagull.ogg/En-us-seagull.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/En-us-seagull.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
},
{
"audio": "en-au-seagull.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b0/En-au-seagull.ogg/En-au-seagull.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/En-au-seagull.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "sea gull"
},
{
"word": "sea-gull"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"seagull"
],
"word": "seagull"
}
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