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"a lever"
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"lever",
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"masculine"
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"english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
"ref": "1806, Walter Scott, Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3)",
"text": "Then spak the lord, hight Hamilton, And to the nobil king said he, \"My sovereign prince, sum counsell take, First at your nobilis, syne at me.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
"ref": "1905, Robert Louis Stevenson, David Balfour, Second Part",
"text": "But whan he spak, it was mair in sorrow than in anger.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
"ref": "1898, Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr, Scottish sketches",
"text": "And I'll do this messenger justice; he laid down no law to me, he only spak o' the duty laid on his own conscience; but my conscience said 'Amen' to his--that's about it.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
"ref": "1896, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, Adventures in Criticism",
"text": "Ful wel she song the service divyne, Entuned in hir nose ful semely; And Frensh she spak ful faire and fetisly, After the scole of Stratford atte Bowe, For Frensh of Paris was to hir unknowe...\"",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
"ref": "1919, Frederic Moorman, More Tales of the Ridings",
"text": "Them was t' truest words he iver spak, an' shoo would hae been muck-cheap if I'd gien a million pund for her.\"",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
"ref": "1857, Various, The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV.",
"text": "I went unto her mother, and I argued and I fleech'd, I spak o' love and honesty, and mair and mair beseech'd; But she was deaf to a' my grief, she wadna look on me; O poverty!",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
"ref": "1904, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Merry Men",
"text": "Het as he was, he took a kind o' cauld grue in the marrow o' his banes; but up he spak for a' that; an' says he: 'My friend, are you a stranger in this place?'",
"type": "quotation"
}
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"simple past tense of speak"
],
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[
"speak",
"speak#Scots"
]
]
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"ipa": "[spak]"
}
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"4": "",
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"name": "inh"
}
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"comparative"
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},
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"english": "tame as a lamb",
"text": "spak som ett lamm"
}
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"powerless, tired, obedient, tame, calm, easy, reasonable; of a person or animal that used to resist, but has given up the fight; of calm water"
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"tired",
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"calm",
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"word": "spakhet"
},
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"word": "spakna"
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{
"word": "spakvatten"
}
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{
"word": "foglig"
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{
"word": "kuvad"
},
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"word": "medgörlig"
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"english": "He pulled the lever",
"text": "Han drog i spaken",
"type": "example"
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"english": "The Nazis are in control",
"text": "Nazisterna sitter vid spakarna",
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"a lever used to control some machine; a lever, a rod, a handle, a stick, a joystick, a control"
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"handle",
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{
"word": "spakblock"
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{
"word": "spakmanövrerad"
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{
"word": "styrspak"
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{
"word": "växelspak"
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"word": "grepp"
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"word": "reglage"
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[
"speken",
"speken#Middle English"
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"second-person singular past indicative of speken"
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"speken",
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"(later) second-person singular past indicative of speken"
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"english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
"ref": "1898, Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr, Scottish sketches",
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{
"english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
"ref": "1896, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, Adventures in Criticism",
"text": "Ful wel she song the service divyne, Entuned in hir nose ful semely; And Frensh she spak ful faire and fetisly, After the scole of Stratford atte Bowe, For Frensh of Paris was to hir unknowe...\"",
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},
{
"english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
"ref": "1919, Frederic Moorman, More Tales of the Ridings",
"text": "Them was t' truest words he iver spak, an' shoo would hae been muck-cheap if I'd gien a million pund for her.\"",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
"ref": "1857, Various, The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV.",
"text": "I went unto her mother, and I argued and I fleech'd, I spak o' love and honesty, and mair and mair beseech'd; But she was deaf to a' my grief, she wadna look on me; O poverty!",
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{
"english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
"ref": "1904, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Merry Men",
"text": "Het as he was, he took a kind o' cauld grue in the marrow o' his banes; but up he spak for a' that; an' says he: 'My friend, are you a stranger in this place?'",
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