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"sense": "raised roadway",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Fahrdamm"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "raised roadway",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "raised roadway",
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},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "raised roadway",
"word": "töltés"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "raised roadway",
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "raised roadway",
"word": "burkolt gázló"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "raised roadway",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cabhsa"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "raised roadway",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "selciato"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "raised roadway",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lastricato"
},
{
"alt": "どてみち",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "dotemichi",
"sense": "raised roadway",
"word": "土手道"
},
{
"alt": "りっきょう",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "rikkyō",
"sense": "raised roadway",
"word": "陸橋"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "raised roadway",
"word": "jalan tambak"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "raised roadway",
"word": "tambak"
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{
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "raised roadway",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tailli"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "raised roadway",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "grobla"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "raised roadway",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "droga na grobli"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "dámba",
"sense": "raised roadway",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "да́мба"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "gatʹ",
"sense": "raised roadway",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "гать"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nasypnája doróga",
"sense": "raised roadway",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "насыпна́я доро́га"
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{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "raised roadway",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cabhsair"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "raised roadway",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "calzada elevada"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "raised roadway",
"word": "şose"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "raised roadway",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "sarn"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Johor–Singapore Causeway",
"causeway"
],
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}
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"2": "cauchie",
"3": "",
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"forms": [
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"form": "causeways",
"tags": [
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"singular",
"third-person"
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},
{
"form": "causewaying",
"tags": [
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"present"
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{
"form": "causewayed",
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{
"ref": "1873, The Scottish Jurist, volume 45, Alexander Dennistoun and Others, Pursuers, v. John Thomson, Defender",
"text": "In thus limiting his judgment, I understand that he has not pronounced any opinion in regard to the formation and causewaying of streets […]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1878 December 13, The British Architect: A Journal of Architecture and the Accessory Arts, volume 10, number 24, page 235",
"text": "The Glasgow Town Council decided at their last meeting to causeway the following streets at the respective costs given […]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1879, “The Kinning Park proprietors v. the police commissioners of Kinning Park.”, in The Journal of Jurisprudence, volume 23, page 556",
"text": "There had been a previous partial allocation, but the final allocation was made in 1875; and the whole sums payable by the owners of the streets for paving and causewaying them, as resolved upon by the Commissioners, have been duly paid.",
"type": "quotation"
}
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"To pave, to cobble."
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],
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"(obsolete, transitive) To pave, to cobble."
],
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}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ˈkɔːz.weɪ/"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Johor–Singapore Causeway",
"causeway"
],
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}
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