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],
[
"whaler",
"whaler"
],
[
"ship",
"ship"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(by extension) A social gathering of whalers (whaling ships)."
],
"tags": [
"broadly"
]
}
],
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"ipa": "/ɡæm/"
},
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},
{
"rhymes": "-æm"
}
],
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{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "group of whales",
"word": "鯨魚群"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "jīng yú qún",
"sense": "group of whales",
"word": "鲸鱼群"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "group of whales",
"word": "balenaro"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "group of whales",
"word": "parvi"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "group of whales",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kŕdeľ veľrýb"
}
],
"word": "gam"
}
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"Rhymes:English/æm/1 syllable",
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"en:Body parts",
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"en:Collectives"
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{
"form": "gams",
"tags": [
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"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "gamming",
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"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
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"past"
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"word": "gam gam"
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"English intransitive verbs",
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"en:Nautical"
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{
"ref": "2008, Eric Jay Dolin, Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America, →ISBN, page 436:",
"text": "Although most whalemen looked forward to gamming and enjoyed these ocean-borne gatherings, there were at least a few whalemen who either grew weary of them, or just weary of gamming so often with the same ships over and over.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2011, Paul Schneider, The Enduring Shore: A History of Cape Cod, →ISBN, page 255:",
"text": "This was early in the summer of 1820, after nearly a year at sea, and they had gammed the whaling ship Aurora, which had on board not only plenty of letters but some newspapers as well.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2014, James Revell Carr, Hawaiian Music in Motion, →ISBN, page 181:",
"text": "In chapter 2 we saw how gamming whalers sang songs that tied them to their homelands while emphasizing the transient, cosmopolitan nature of their work, […]",
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}
],
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"To pay a social visit on another ship at sea."
],
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[
"visit",
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"(nautical, transitive, intransitive) To pay a social visit on another ship at sea."
],
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"transitive"
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"glosses": [
"To engage in social intercourse anywhere."
],
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"(US, dialect) To engage in social intercourse anywhere."
],
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"US",
"dialectal"
]
}
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}
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