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"arblast"
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[
"crossbow",
"crossbow"
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]
}
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"ipa": "/ˈwɪnd.ləs/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"homophone": "windless"
},
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
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"obsolete"
],
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}
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{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "brášpilʹ",
"sense": "winch",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "бра́шпіль"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "ljabjódka",
"sense": "winch",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "лябёдка"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "makara",
"sense": "winch",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "макара"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "haspel",
"sense": "winch",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "хаспел"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "winch",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "argue"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "winch",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "rumpál"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "winch",
"word": "vintturi"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "winch",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "guindastre"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "kanenet",
"sense": "winch",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "כַּנֶּנֶת"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "winch",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "argano"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "winch",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "verricello"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "winch",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bozzello"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "winch",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "salpareti"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "winch",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "sucula"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "winch",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "tormentum"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "dígalka",
"sense": "winch",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ди́галка"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "winch",
"word": "huritaura"
},
{
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "winch",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "vitheveau"
},
{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "bocurgat",
"sense": "winch",
"word": "بوجرغات"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "winch",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kołowrót"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "brášpilʹ",
"sense": "winch",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "бра́шпиль"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "lebjódka",
"sense": "winch",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "лебёдка"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "winch",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "sidreno vitlo"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "winch",
"word": "malacate"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "winch",
"word": "biling-bilingan"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "winch",
"word": "bocurgat"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "brašpylʹ",
"sense": "winch",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "брашпиль"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "lebidka",
"sense": "winch",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "лебідка"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"windlass"
],
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}
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"English entries with incorrect language header",
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{
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{
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"2": "windas"
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{
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"1": "enm",
"2": "wyndas"
},
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{
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"2": "wyndace"
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"3": "windase"
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"2": "windeis"
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"3": "windas"
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"name": "der"
},
{
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"1": "fro",
"2": "guindas"
},
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{
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"2": "windasius"
},
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{
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"1": "la",
"2": "windasa"
},
"expansion": "windasa",
"name": "m"
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{
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"1": "en",
"2": "non",
"3": "vindáss",
"lit": "winding-pole",
"t": "windlass"
},
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"name": "der"
},
{
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"1": "non",
"2": "vinda",
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},
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"name": "m"
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{
"args": {
"1": "non",
"2": "áss",
"t": "pole"
},
"expansion": "áss (“pole”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "is",
"2": "vindilass"
},
"expansion": "Icelandic vindilass",
"name": "cog"
}
],
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{
"form": "windlasses",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "windlassing",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
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},
{
"form": "windlassed",
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"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "windlassed",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
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"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
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{
"ref": "1882, Constance Gordon-Cumming, “Ningpo and the Buddhist Temples”, in The Century Magazine",
"text": "A favoring breeze enabled us to sail all the way down the lake, and (having been windlassed across the haul-over) even down the canals.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"To raise with, or as if with, a windlass; to use a windlass."
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"To take a roundabout course; to work warily or by indirect means."
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ˈwɪnd.ləs/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"homophone": "windless"
},
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"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/78/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-windlass.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-windlass.wav.mp3",
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
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}
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"tags": [
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}
],
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],
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}
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