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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "eye in the end of a rope",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Spleiß"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "method of joining fabric",
"word": "silmukka"
}
],
"word": "becket"
}
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