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"ref": "1960, Gottfried Keller, translated by AM Holt, Green Henry, Calder Publications, published 2010, page 456",
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"A dam constructed across a river or stream to raise the water level so that it can turn a millwheel; also, the millpond so created."
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"code": "ast",
"lang": "Asturian",
"sense": "dam constructed in order to create a millpond",
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"masculine"
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"word": "banzáu"
},
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "vodeničen jaz",
"sense": "dam constructed in order to create a millpond",
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"masculine"
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"word": "воденичен яз"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "dam constructed in order to create a millpond",
"word": "myllypato"
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"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "dam constructed in order to create a millpond",
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"word": "banzado"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "dam constructed in order to create a millpond",
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"masculine"
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"word": "Mühldamm"
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"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "dam constructed in order to create a millpond",
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"masculine"
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"word": "damba muilinn"
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"sense": "dam constructed in order to create a millpond",
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"sense": "dam constructed in order to create a millpond",
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"sense": "dam constructed in order to create a millpond",
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"sense": "dam constructed in order to create a millpond",
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "dam constructed in order to create a millpond",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Mühldamm"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "dam constructed in order to create a millpond",
"tags": [
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"word": "damba muilinn"
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"sense": "dam constructed in order to create a millpond",
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"word": "kvarndamm"
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],
"word": "mill dam"
}
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