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"expansion": "chark (third-person singular simple present charks, present participle charking, simple past and past participle charked)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned",
"Scottish English",
"en:Sounds"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1820, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 7:",
"text": "The hoarse charking conversation which they carried on was calculated to support the delusion.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To make a grating sound."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Scotland) To make a grating sound."
],
"tags": [
"Scotland"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/t͡ʃɑː(ɹ)k/"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-chark.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/23/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-chark.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-chark.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/23/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-chark.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-chark.wav.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɑː(ɹ)k"
}
],
"word": "chark"
}
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