See fascine in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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},
{
"form": "fascining",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "fascined",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "fascined",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "fascine (third-person singular simple present fascines, present participle fascining, simple past and past participle fascined)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"fasc‧ine"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English transitive verbs",
"New Zealand English",
"en:Military"
],
"glosses": [
"To use fascines to build or reinforce (something), or to fill in (a trench, etc.)."
],
"links": [
[
"military",
"military"
],
[
"use",
"use#Verb"
],
[
"fascines",
"fascine#Noun"
],
[
"build",
"build#Verb"
],
[
"reinforce",
"reinforce"
],
[
"fill",
"fill#Verb"
],
[
"trench",
"trench#Noun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, originally military, chiefly New Zealand) To use fascines to build or reinforce (something), or to fill in (a trench, etc.)."
],
"tags": [
"New-Zealand",
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/fəˈsiːn/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/fæ-/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-fascine.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/58/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-fascine.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-fascine.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/58/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-fascine.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-fascine.wav.ogg"
},
{
"ipa": "/fəˈsin/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/fɛˈsiːn/",
"tags": [
"New-Zealand"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-iːn"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"American Civil War",
"British Army",
"Templin"
],
"word": "fascine"
}
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