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"text": "a caster of spells",
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"text": "a caster of stones",
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{
"text": "a caster of bronze statuary",
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{
"ref": "2016, C Pam Zhang, How Much of These Hills Is Gold, Virago, page 231",
"text": "She’s never seen a hired man without Anna to command him. He’s eerie as a shadow without its caster.",
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"Someone or something that casts."
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"sense": "someone or something that casts",
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"sense": "someone or something that casts",
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"sense": "someone or something that casts",
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"sense": "someone or something that casts",
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"sense": "someone or something that casts",
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"sense": "someone or something that casts",
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"sense": "someone or something that casts",
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"sense": "someone or something that casts",
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"english": "who spells",
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"sense": "someone or something that casts",
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"english": "thrower",
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"ref": "1980 August 30, Nancy Walker, “My Boss Comes Out”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 6, page 7",
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"text": "Many office chairs roll on a set of casters.",
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"sense": "wheeled assembly",
"word": "輪腳"
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"roman": "lúnjiǎo",
"sense": "wheeled assembly",
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"sense": "wheeled assembly",
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "wheeled assembly",
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "wheeled assembly",
"word": "rullapyörä"
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{
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "wheeled assembly",
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"lang": "French",
"sense": "wheeled assembly",
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"feminine"
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"sense": "wheeled assembly",
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"masculine"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "wheeled assembly",
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"neuter"
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"lang": "German",
"sense": "wheeled assembly",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "Lenkrolle"
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"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "karoúli",
"sense": "wheeled assembly",
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"neuter"
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"word": "καρούλι"
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "wheeled assembly",
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "wheeled assembly",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "montaggio su ruote"
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"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kyasutā",
"sense": "wheeled assembly",
"word": "キャスター"
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"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "wheeled assembly",
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"neuter"
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"sense": "wheeled assembly",
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"masculine"
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"roman": "koljósiko",
"sense": "wheeled assembly",
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"neuter"
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"word": "колёсико"
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"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "wheeled assembly",
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"masculine"
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"word": "kolešček"
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "wheeled assembly",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "rueda"
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "wheeled assembly",
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"feminine"
],
"word": "ruedita"
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"text": "a set of casters",
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "sólnica",
"sense": "shaker with perforated top",
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"feminine"
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"word": "со́лница"
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"sense": "shaker with perforated top",
"word": "調味瓶"
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{
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"roman": "tiáowèi píng",
"sense": "shaker with perforated top",
"word": "调味瓶"
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"sense": "shaker with perforated top",
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"common-gender"
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"sense": "shaker with perforated top",
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "shaker with perforated top",
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "shaker with perforated top",
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"word": "szóró"
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"_dis1": "4 6 70 16 4",
"code": "hu",
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"code": "hu",
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "shaker with perforated top",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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"_dis1": "4 6 70 16 4",
"code": "it",
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"sense": "shaker with perforated top",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"alt": "やくみいれ",
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"word": "薬味入れ"
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"sense": "shaker with perforated top",
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"_dis1": "4 6 70 16 4",
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"english": "pepper shaker",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pérečnica",
"sense": "shaker with perforated top",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"feminine"
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"ref": "2008, Ronald G Haefner, The Car Care Book, page 238",
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],
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"UK"
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"ipa": "/ˈkæstə(ɹ)/",
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"General-Australian",
"New-Zealand",
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈkæstɚ/",
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"Canada",
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{
"homophone": "castor"
},
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{
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