See spall on Wiktionary
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"word": "sirpaloitua"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to break into fragments",
"word": "mennä säpäleiksi"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to break into fragments",
"word": "rozpaść się"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to break into fragments",
"word": "istucati"
}
],
"word": "spall"
}
{
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"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms derived from Italian",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:English/ɔːl",
"Rhymes:English/ɔːl/1 syllable"
],
"etymology_number": 2,
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{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "it",
"3": "spalla"
},
"expansion": "Italian spalla",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Italian spalla.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "spalls",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {},
"expansion": "spall (plural spalls)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
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{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with rare senses"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 30, page 265:",
"text": "Their mightie ſtrokes their haberieons diſmayld, / And naked made each others manly ſpalles; […]",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The shoulder."
],
"links": [
[
"shoulder",
"shoulder"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete, rare) The shoulder."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete",
"rare"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/spɔːl/"
},
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},
{
"rhymes": "-ɔːl"
}
],
"word": "spall"
}
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