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"3": "*exferra"
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"2": "sferrare<t:to unshoe (a horse)>"
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"Horses",
"Metalworking",
"Equids",
"Livestock",
"Crafts",
"Metallurgy",
"Odd-toed ungulates",
"Agriculture",
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"Society",
"Metals",
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"exhausted horseshoe; the old horseshoe after it is removed from the hoof of a horse"
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"(farriery) exhausted horseshoe; the old horseshoe after it is removed from the hoof of a horse"
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"feminine"
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"hobbies",
"horses",
"lifestyle",
"pets",
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"english": "Here's your old rusty sword. Are you mad with anyone? Tell me about it, and I'll make sausages of them.",
"ref": "17ᵗʰ century, Silvio Fiorillo, “Scena Settima”, in La Lucilla costante",
"text": "Ecco la vostra sferra vecchia, avetela con alcuno? Ditelo a me, che ne farò salciccie.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
"ref": "c. 1685, Federigo Nomi, chapter XIII, in Il catorcio d'Anghiari, stanza XV",
"text": "Ognun portava l’asta ed il polvese, ¶ E al fianco senza fodero la sferra, […]",
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"Various things which are old and worn out or with little value:",
"old rusty knife or sword"
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"regional",
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[
"rusty",
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[
"knife",
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[
"sword",
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"(by extension, archaic or regional) Various things which are old and worn out or with little value:",
"old rusty knife or sword"
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"examples": [
{
"english": "[…] their master puts his hand on their shoulder or gifts them a rag from his old stuff.",
"ref": "1529, Pietro Aretino, “A messer Girolamo Agnelli”, in Il primo libro delle lettere",
"text": "[…] il signor loro gli pon la mano in su la spalla o gli dona una sferra de le sue cose vecchie.",
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"Various things which are old and worn out or with little value:",
"rag (tattered piece of clothing)"
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"(by extension, archaic or regional) Various things which are old and worn out or with little value:",
"rag (tattered piece of clothing)"
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"word": "cencio"
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{
"word": "straccio"
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"Various things which are old and worn out or with little value:",
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"(by extension, archaic or regional) Various things which are old and worn out or with little value:",
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"Various things which are old and worn out or with little value:",
"good-for-nothing (worthless man)"
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"(by extension, archaic or regional) Various things which are old and worn out or with little value:",
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{
"text": "Coordinate term: rullo"
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"dredge",
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"(regional, fishing) dredge (iron frame attached to a fine net when fishing molluscs)"
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"feminine",
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"ipa": "/ˈsfɛr.ra/"
},
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"to break loose"
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"t1": "to unshoe (a horse)"
},
"expansion": "By surface analysis, sfirrari (“to unshoe (a horse)”) + -a",
"name": "surf"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "it",
"2": "sferra"
},
"expansion": "Italian sferra",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nap",
"2": "sferra"
},
"expansion": "Neapolitan sferra",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Vulgar Latin *exferra. By surface analysis, sfirrari (“to unshoe (a horse)”) + -a. For clearer semantic evolution see Italian sferra, and compare Neapolitan sferra.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "sferri",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "scn",
"2": "nouns",
"g": "f",
"g2": "",
"head": "sferra"
},
"expansion": "sferra f",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sferr",
"2": "f",
"3": "a",
"4": "i"
},
"expansion": "sferra f (plural sferri)",
"name": "scn-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Sicilian",
"lang_code": "scn",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Sicilian requests for English equivalent term",
"scn:Farriery"
],
"glosses": [
"broken old exhausted horseshoe after it is taken from the hoof of the horse"
],
"links": [
[
"farriery",
"farriery"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(farriery) broken old exhausted horseshoe after it is taken from the hoof of the horse"
],
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"topics": [
"farriery",
"hobbies",
"horses",
"lifestyle",
"pets",
"sports"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"a knife without handle, especially if old"
],
"links": [
[
"knife",
"knife"
],
[
"handle",
"handle"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"a bolt that secures the hoe blade to the handle"
],
"links": [
[
"bolt",
"bolt"
],
[
"hoe",
"hoe"
],
[
"blade",
"blade"
],
[
"handle",
"handle"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine"
]
}
],
"word": "sferra"
}
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