"dah" meaning in English

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        "The spoken representation of a dash in radio and telegraph Morse code."
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          "word": "ta"
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          "roman": "tsū",
          "sense": "spoken representation of a dash",
          "word": "ツー"
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          "roman": "tirɛ́",
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      "ipa": "/dɑː/"
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      "rhymes": "-ɑː"
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          "ref": "1922, Rudyard Kipling, What Happened, lines 33–36",
          "text": "Jowar Singh the Sikh procured sabre, quoit, and mace, / Abdul Huq, Wahabi, jerked his dagger from its place, / While amid the jungle-grass danced and grinned and jabbered / Little Boh Hla-oo and cleared his dah-blade from the scabbard.",
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        "(Myanmar) A long knife or sword with a round cross-section grip, a long, gently curving blade with a single edge, and no guard."
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      "ipa": "/dɑː/"
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      "rhymes": "-ɑː"
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      "ipa": "/dɑː/"
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      "word": "ta"
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      "sense": "spoken representation of a dash",
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          "text": "Jowar Singh the Sikh procured sabre, quoit, and mace, / Abdul Huq, Wahabi, jerked his dagger from its place, / While amid the jungle-grass danced and grinned and jabbered / Little Boh Hla-oo and cleared his dah-blade from the scabbard.",
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