"disease boat" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "disease boats",
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        "plural"
      ]
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      "expansion": "disease boat (plural disease boats)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Watercraft",
          "orig": "en:Watercraft",
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            "Nautical",
            "Vehicles",
            "Transport",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., page 165:",
          "text": "The loading of diseases into disease-boats, of sins onto scape-goats, the propitiation of the forces of nature by victims, human or animal, sacrifices, ceremonies of re-birth, eucharistic feasts, sexual communions, orgiastic celebrations of the common life, and a host of other things — all said plainly enough what was meant, but not in words.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In early societies, a boat, canoe, etc., in which community members suffering from a disease were exiled in the belief that the evil spirits of the disease would be carried away."
      ],
      "id": "en-disease_boat-en-noun-fc5CZZ~4",
      "links": [
        [
          "boat",
          "boat"
        ],
        [
          "canoe",
          "canoe"
        ],
        [
          "disease",
          "disease"
        ],
        [
          "exiled",
          "exile"
        ],
        [
          "evil",
          "evil"
        ],
        [
          "spirit",
          "spirit"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical) In early societies, a boat, canoe, etc., in which community members suffering from a disease were exiled in the belief that the evil spirits of the disease would be carried away."
      ],
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        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "rhymes": "-əʊt"
    }
  ],
  "word": "disease boat"
}

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    {
      "form": "disease boats",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "Rhymes:English/əʊt",
        "Rhymes:English/əʊt/3 syllables",
        "en:Watercraft"
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        {
          "ref": "1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., page 165:",
          "text": "The loading of diseases into disease-boats, of sins onto scape-goats, the propitiation of the forces of nature by victims, human or animal, sacrifices, ceremonies of re-birth, eucharistic feasts, sexual communions, orgiastic celebrations of the common life, and a host of other things — all said plainly enough what was meant, but not in words.",
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      ],
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        "In early societies, a boat, canoe, etc., in which community members suffering from a disease were exiled in the belief that the evil spirits of the disease would be carried away."
      ],
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          "boat",
          "boat"
        ],
        [
          "canoe",
          "canoe"
        ],
        [
          "disease",
          "disease"
        ],
        [
          "exiled",
          "exile"
        ],
        [
          "evil",
          "evil"
        ],
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          "spirit",
          "spirit"
        ]
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        "(historical) In early societies, a boat, canoe, etc., in which community members suffering from a disease were exiled in the belief that the evil spirits of the disease would be carried away."
      ],
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  "sounds": [
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      "rhymes": "-əʊt"
    }
  ],
  "word": "disease boat"
}