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"expansion": "Italian spalla",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Italian spalla.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "spalls",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "spall (plural spalls)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English terms with rare senses"
],
"glosses": [
"The shoulder."
],
"links": [
[
"shoulder",
"shoulder"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete, rare) The shoulder."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete",
"rare"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/spɔːl/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɔːl"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-spall.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a8/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-spall.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-spall.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a8/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-spall.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-spall.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"word": "spall"
}
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