See crawling in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/35/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-crawling.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-crawling.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈkɹɑlɪŋ/",
"tags": [
"cot-caught-merger"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈkɹaːlɪn/",
"tags": [
"Northumbria"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɔːlɪŋ"
}
],
"word": "crawling"
}
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{
"called_from": "page/2530",
"msg": "skipping string in the middle of translations: </table></div></div>\n\n",
"path": [
"crawling"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "crawling",
"trace": ""
}
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