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"roman": "skoiní gia áploma roúchon",
"sense": "rope or cord for drying clothes",
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"sense": "rope or cord for drying clothes",
"word": "linea di vestiti"
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"word": "物干し綱"
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"word": "киім сызығы"
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"word": "ampaian baju"
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"roman": "belʹjevája verjóvka",
"sense": "rope or cord for drying clothes",
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"word": "бельева́я верёвка"
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"word": "cuerda para tender la ropa"
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"text": "The referee called a personal foul, when he clotheslined the running back.",
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"ref": "2014, Jonathan Wood, No Hero, Titan Books",
"text": "One beast jams out its arm, as if to clothesline me, jagged claws poised to take my head off at the neck. I let my feet fall from under me, throwing my legs forward, praying for some momentum, ducking and sliding, a mad limbo to freedom.",
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"code": "da",
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"code": "nl",
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "rope or cord for drying clothes",
"word": "pyykkinaru"
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "rope or cord for drying clothes",
"word": "corde à linge"
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"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "rope or cord for drying clothes",
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"masculine"
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"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "rope or cord for drying clothes",
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"feminine"
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"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "samḳervalo",
"sense": "rope or cord for drying clothes",
"word": "სამკერვალო"
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"code": "de",
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"word": "Wäscheleine"
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"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
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"sense": "rope or cord for drying clothes",
"word": "σκοινί για άπλωμα ρούχων"
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"code": "he",
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"masculine"
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "rope or cord for drying clothes",
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "rope or cord for drying clothes",
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"code": "is",
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"code": "is",
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"code": "ga",
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"code": "it",
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"code": "ms",
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"sense": "rope or cord for drying clothes",
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"code": "mi",
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"sense": "rope or cord for drying clothes",
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"code": "mi",
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"sense": "rope or cord for drying clothes",
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"sense": "rope or cord for drying clothes",
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"sense": "rope or cord for drying clothes",
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"feminine"
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"word": "varal"
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "rope or cord for drying clothes",
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"feminine"
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"word": "бельева́я верёвка"
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"feminine"
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"word": "cuerda para tender la ropa"
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"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "rope or cord for drying clothes",
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"code": "tsg",
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"sense": "rope or cord for drying clothes",
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"sense": "rope or cord for drying clothes",
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"roman": "gretshtrik",
"sense": "rope or cord for drying clothes",
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"ref": "2014, Jonathan Wood, No Hero, Titan Books",
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{
"ref": "2014 February 21, “Ear-bite actor Clive Mantle was like 'big monster', court told”, in BBC News",
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