"pollicate" meaning in English

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      "form": "pollicates",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 467:",
          "text": "‘Disgusting? this is Tea, Friend, Cha,— what all tasteful London drinks,– that,’ pollicating the Coffee-Pot, ‘is what’s disgusting.’",
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        "To gesture with the thumb."
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      "ipa": "/ˈpɒlɪkeɪt/"
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  "word": "pollicate"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "kind": "topical",
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          "name": "Zoology",
          "orig": "en:Zoology",
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            "Biology",
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        "Of insects: having a curved projection or spine on the inner side of a leg joint."
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          "curved",
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        [
          "projection",
          "projection"
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        [
          "spine",
          "spine"
        ],
        [
          "leg",
          "leg"
        ],
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          "joint",
          "joint"
        ]
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        "(zoology) Of insects: having a curved projection or spine on the inner side of a leg joint."
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  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpɒlɪkeɪt/"
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  "word": "pollicate"
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    {
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        "To gesture with the thumb."
      ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpɒlɪkeɪt/"
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  "pos": "adj",
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          "leg",
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        "(zoology) Of insects: having a curved projection or spine on the inner side of a leg joint."
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