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},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to make preparations, put things in order or do trifling business",
"word": "prötteln"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to line the hearth of a furnace with sand",
"word": "auskleiden"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to line the hearth of a furnace with sand",
"word": "ausfüllen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to remove seam lines left by the meeting of two molds",
"word": "beschroten"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to remove seam lines left by the meeting of two molds",
"word": "beschneiden"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to remove seam lines left by the meeting of two molds",
"word": "putzen"
}
],
"word": "fettle"
}
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