"megass" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Attested since about 1840 in American English, a modification of bagasse.",
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      "expansion": "megass (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1846, Simmonds Colonial Magazine and Foreign Miscellany (Peter Lund Simmonds, William Henry Giles Kingston), page 119",
          "text": "The megass was then gathered together, and suffered to steep in water so hot, that the hand can be borne in it without inconvenience, and after a while the megass was reground : the canes yielded two pans of liquor, and the megass one; […]"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Bagasse."
      ],
      "id": "en-megass-en-noun-RZTpM~9x",
      "links": [
        [
          "Bagasse",
          "bagasse"
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) Bagasse."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/məˈɡæs/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/məˈɡɑːs/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "megass"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Attested since about 1840 in American English, a modification of bagasse.",
  "head_templates": [
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      "expansion": "megass (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
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        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1846, Simmonds Colonial Magazine and Foreign Miscellany (Peter Lund Simmonds, William Henry Giles Kingston), page 119",
          "text": "The megass was then gathered together, and suffered to steep in water so hot, that the hand can be borne in it without inconvenience, and after a while the megass was reground : the canes yielded two pans of liquor, and the megass one; […]"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Bagasse."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Bagasse",
          "bagasse"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) Bagasse."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/məˈɡæs/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/məˈɡɑːs/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "megass"
}