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"text": "Wrought there and fashion'd the folk of the Weders A howe on the lithe, that high was and broad, Unto the wave-farers wide to be seen: Then it they betimber'd in time often days, The battle-strong's beacon; [...]",
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"To furnish with timber; timber."
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