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"ref": "1935, [George Goodchild], chapter 5, in Death on the Centre Court; a McLean Mystery, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC",
"text": "By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.",
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"text": "main timbers",
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"ref": "2013 August 3, “The Future of Oil: Yesterday’s fuel”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847, archived from the original on 2013-08-01",
"text": "The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. […] It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber. Other liquids produced in the refining process, too unstable or smoky for lamplight, were burned or dumped.",
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"word": "գլխավոր"
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"word": "首要"
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"word": "עִיקָּרִי"
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"word": "aðal-"
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"word": "terutama"
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"word": "paling penting"
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"word": "principale"
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"word": "ដើម"
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"word": "주요하다"
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"word": "ya libosó"
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"sense": "chief, most important, or principal in extent, etc.",
"word": "utama"
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"code": "ms",
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"sense": "chief, most important, or principal in extent, etc.",
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"sense": "chief, most important, or principal in extent, etc.",
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"sense": "chief, most important, or principal in extent, etc.",
"word": "matua"
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"code": "mi",
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"word": "hoved-"
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"code": "ang",
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"sense": "chief, most important, or principal in extent, etc.",
"word": "hēafod-"
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"code": "ang",
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"sense": "chief, most important, or principal in extent, etc.",
"word": "hēafodlīċ"
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "chief, most important, or principal in extent, etc.",
"word": "główny"
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "chief, most important, or principal in extent, etc.",
"word": "principal"
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"code": "ro",
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"code": "ru",
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"word": "гла́вный"
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"sense": "that which is chief or principal",
"word": "hoved-"
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"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "that which is chief or principal",
"word": "hoofd-"
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"roman": "glavna trǎba",
"sense": "large pipe or cable",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "главна тръба"
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"code": "da",
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "large pipe or cable",
"word": "pääjohto"
},
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "large pipe or cable",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Hauptleitung"
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{
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "bɑmpʊəng tʰom",
"sense": "large pipe or cable",
"word": "បំពង់ធំ"
},
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"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"sense": "large pipe or cable",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "ard-phiob"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "short for mainsail",
"word": "iso"
},
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"note": "usually in the definite form",
"sense": "short for mainsail",
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"word": "store"
}
],
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"text": "1876, Charles Dickens, All the Year Round\nThat no minute might be wasted, the gay gallants of the time generally had a dice-box and a cast of dice in their pockets. This was convenient in the extreme, as, in the intervals of racing, a main could be thrown […]"
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"glosses": [
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"ref": "[1751, Robert Ainsworth, Samuel Patrick, “A main”, in Thesaurus Linguæ Latinæ Compendiarius: Or, A Compendious Dictionary of the Latin Tongue: […], 3rd edition, London: Printed by C. and J. Ackers, for W[illiam] Mount and T[homas] Page [et al.], →OCLC, column 1",
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