"roman-candle" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "roman-candles",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "roman-candling",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "roman-candled",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "roman-candled",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "roman-candle (third-person singular simple present roman-candles, present participle roman-candling, simple past and past participle roman-candled)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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        {
          "word": "Roman-candle"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007, Michael Abrams, Birdmen, Batmen, and Skyflyers:",
          "text": "Their parachutes collapsed and together they roman-candled into the ground.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Tim Ramsden, Backpacking Beyond Boundaries: A South African's Travels:",
          "text": "In 1943 when Dad was at school in Shropshire, he saw two US planes collide, one pilot managed to bail out but unfortunately he roman-candled with the school children watching it.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, John Goldsmith, Accidental Agent: Behind Enemy Lines with the French Resistance:",
          "text": "One of the paratrooper's 'chutes had roman-candled – failed to open – and he had plunged into the ground only fifty yards from where we were standing.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of Roman-candle"
      ],
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        [
          "Roman-candle",
          "Roman-candle#English"
        ]
      ],
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        "alternative"
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    }
  ],
  "word": "roman-candle"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "roman-candles",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "roman-candling",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "roman-candled",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "roman-candled",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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    {
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          "word": "Roman-candle"
        }
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        "English terms with quotations",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007, Michael Abrams, Birdmen, Batmen, and Skyflyers:",
          "text": "Their parachutes collapsed and together they roman-candled into the ground.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Tim Ramsden, Backpacking Beyond Boundaries: A South African's Travels:",
          "text": "In 1943 when Dad was at school in Shropshire, he saw two US planes collide, one pilot managed to bail out but unfortunately he roman-candled with the school children watching it.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, John Goldsmith, Accidental Agent: Behind Enemy Lines with the French Resistance:",
          "text": "One of the paratrooper's 'chutes had roman-candled – failed to open – and he had plunged into the ground only fifty yards from where we were standing.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of Roman-candle"
      ],
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        [
          "Roman-candle",
          "Roman-candle#English"
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  "word": "roman-candle"
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