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"ref": "1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 183",
"text": "I came safe on board, but I felt anything but easy about the boat and the boy; my thoughts were not where they should be, for every moment I had to give the boat and the boy a look, and at last I saw a sea strike the boat aft, which gave it a send forward and under, and the next moment he was gone.",
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
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"sense": "at, near, or towards the stern",
"word": "назад"
},
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"code": "bg",
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"word": "към кърмата"
},
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"sense": "at, near, or towards the stern",
"word": "perässä"
},
{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "at, near, or towards the stern",
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "at, near, or towards the stern",
"word": "achtern"
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"sense": "at, near, or towards the stern",
"word": "hátul"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "at, near, or towards the stern",
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{
"code": "hu",
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"sense": "at, near, or towards the stern",
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"code": "ga",
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"sense": "at, near, or towards the stern",
"word": "sa deireadh"
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{
"code": "ga",
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"sense": "at, near, or towards the stern",
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{
"code": "it",
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"sense": "at, near, or towards the stern",
"word": "a poppa"
},
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"code": "mi",
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"sense": "at, near, or towards the stern",
"word": "kei te kei"
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"code": "ru",
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"sense": "at, near, or towards the stern",
"word": "на корме"
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{
"code": "ru",
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"sense": "at, near, or towards the stern",
"word": "к корме"
},
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "at, near, or towards the stern",
"word": "a popa"
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"sense": "at, near, or towards the stern",
"word": "akterut"
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{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "at, near, or towards the stern",
"word": "akteröver"
}
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "located at the back of a vessel",
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"code": "fr",
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"word": "arrière"
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"ref": "1898, The Hotel/Motor Hotel Monthly, volume 6, page 27",
"text": "A gents' toilet room might be found in a house that caters for the cheaper class of theatrical patronage, where the slangy language of the \"goin' to the mat this aft?\" style prevails. A gents toilet room is not found in the Southern Hotel. It either \"men's\" or \"gentlemen's\".",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2016, Sally Wainwright, 49:45 from the start, in Happy Valley, season 2, episode 1, spoken by Catherine Cawood (Sarah Lancashire)",
"text": "There's gonna be an announcement later this aft, but he's targeting vulnerable people like yourselves, alright?",
"type": "quotation"
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