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"ref": "1808, William Bernard Cooke, “Natural History”, in A New Picture of the Isle of Wight, London: Vernor, Hood & Sharpe, page 39",
"text": "This landslip appears to have been occasioned by the freezing of the springs in the chasms of the hill; the expansive force of the ice causing a separation at the base of the cliff beneath the hill, the ground began to move forward, and the lands of the farm, being pressed on by the descending mass, were torn from their original foundations.",
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"ref": "2019 October, Ian Walmsley, “Cleaning up”, in Modern Railways, page 42",
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"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "mec̣q̇eri",
"sense": "sliding of a mass of land down a cliff or slope",
"word": "მეწყერი"
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"sense": "sliding of a mass of land down a cliff or slope",
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"sense": "sliding of a mass of land down a cliff or slope",
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"word": "landslip"
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