"jeel" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "wetland area in India",
          "word": "jheel"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1820, Walter Hamilton, A Geographical, Statistical, and Historical Description of Hindostan and the Adjacent Countries, volume 1, page 246",
          "text": "The pieces of stagnant water may be divided into jeels which contain water throughout the year, and chaongre which dry up in the cold season.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1827, East India Company, Journey across the Arracan Mountains: The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany, volume 23, page 16",
          "text": "On the banks of this jeel the party encamped, about two miles from the village.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1827, The Burmese War: Operations on the Sihet Frontier, 1824: The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and Its Dependencies, volume 24, page 551",
          "text": "The reports of some hircarrahs having induced a belief that a short passage might be discovered across the jeels from the Gogra towards Tilyn, Lieut. Fisher, of the Quarter-Master General's department, was despatched to reconnoitre the outlets from that river, accompanied by Lieut. Craigie and five sipahees, in two dingees.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1934, George Orwell, Burmese Days",
          "text": "There were snipe in countless myriads, and wild geese in flocks that rose from the jeel with a roar like a goods train crossing an iron bridge.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "Alternative form of jheel (“wetland area in India”)"
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  "word": "jeel"
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      "expansion": "Manx jeeyl",
      "name": "bor"
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        "2": "jeeill"
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    {
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        "2": "díobháil"
      },
      "expansion": "Irish díobháil",
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  "etymology_text": "Manx jeeyl, jeeill (\"damage\"), cognate to Irish díobháil.",
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1889, Thomas Edward Brown, The Manx Witch: And Other Poems, page 79",
          "text": "And the gel, you know, as freckened as freckened,\nBecause of coorse she navar reckoned\nBut Misthriss Banks could do the jeel ¹\nShe was braggin she could, and she'd take and kneel\nOn her bended knees, and she'd cuss — the baste !\n[…]\n¹ Damage.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1908, Cushag (Josephine Kermode), Eunys, Or the Dalby Maid, page 16",
          "text": "An' first an' last upon the flure, an' spinnin' at the wheel,\nBut that strange silence on her still of what had done the jeel."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1924, Sophia Morrison, Edmund Goodwin, A vocabulary of the Anglo-Manx dialect, page 73, entry \"Govvag\"",
          "text": "The jeel (damage) the govags is doin to the nets is urrov all marcy.\npage 188, entry \"Traa-dy-liooar\":\nAn' the wan (one) that's doin all the jeel (damage) is wickad Traa-dy-liooar (Time-enough). (Cushag.)"
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        "Damage; harm."
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        "(Isle of Man) Damage; harm."
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        {
          "ref": "1820, Walter Hamilton, A Geographical, Statistical, and Historical Description of Hindostan and the Adjacent Countries, volume 1, page 246",
          "text": "The pieces of stagnant water may be divided into jeels which contain water throughout the year, and chaongre which dry up in the cold season.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1827, East India Company, Journey across the Arracan Mountains: The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany, volume 23, page 16",
          "text": "On the banks of this jeel the party encamped, about two miles from the village.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1827, The Burmese War: Operations on the Sihet Frontier, 1824: The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and Its Dependencies, volume 24, page 551",
          "text": "The reports of some hircarrahs having induced a belief that a short passage might be discovered across the jeels from the Gogra towards Tilyn, Lieut. Fisher, of the Quarter-Master General's department, was despatched to reconnoitre the outlets from that river, accompanied by Lieut. Craigie and five sipahees, in two dingees.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1934, George Orwell, Burmese Days",
          "text": "There were snipe in countless myriads, and wild geese in flocks that rose from the jeel with a roar like a goods train crossing an iron bridge.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "Alternative form of jheel (“wetland area in India”)"
      ],
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  "etymology_text": "Manx jeeyl, jeeill (\"damage\"), cognate to Irish díobháil.",
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          "ref": "1889, Thomas Edward Brown, The Manx Witch: And Other Poems, page 79",
          "text": "And the gel, you know, as freckened as freckened,\nBecause of coorse she navar reckoned\nBut Misthriss Banks could do the jeel ¹\nShe was braggin she could, and she'd take and kneel\nOn her bended knees, and she'd cuss — the baste !\n[…]\n¹ Damage.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1908, Cushag (Josephine Kermode), Eunys, Or the Dalby Maid, page 16",
          "text": "An' first an' last upon the flure, an' spinnin' at the wheel,\nBut that strange silence on her still of what had done the jeel."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1924, Sophia Morrison, Edmund Goodwin, A vocabulary of the Anglo-Manx dialect, page 73, entry \"Govvag\"",
          "text": "The jeel (damage) the govags is doin to the nets is urrov all marcy.\npage 188, entry \"Traa-dy-liooar\":\nAn' the wan (one) that's doin all the jeel (damage) is wickad Traa-dy-liooar (Time-enough). (Cushag.)"
        }
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        "Damage; harm."
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        "(Isle of Man) Damage; harm."
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