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"ref": "1856, Elisha Kent Kane, Arctic Explorations",
"text": "Just then, a broad sconce-piece or low water-washed berg came driving up from the southward. The thought flashed upon me of one of our escapes in Melville Bay; and as the sconce moved rapidly close alongside us, McGary managed to plant an anchor on its slope and hold on to it by a whale-line.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"A fragment of a floe of ice."
],
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"floe",
"floe"
],
[
"ice",
"ice"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"A fixed seat or shelf."
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/skɒns/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/skɑns/",
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"General-American"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɒns"
},
{
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"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "skonce"
}
],
"word": "sconce"
}
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"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms borrowed from Middle Dutch",
"English terms derived from Middle Dutch",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English verbs",
"Rhymes:English/ɒns",
"Rhymes:English/ɒns/1 syllable",
"en:Light sources"
],
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"args": {
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"2": "dum",
"3": "schans"
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"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "Schanze"
},
"expansion": "German Schanze",
"name": "cog"
}
],
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{
"form": "sconces",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "sconcing",
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"present"
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{
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"past"
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"form": "sconced",
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"past"
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"English terms with obsolete senses"
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"to shut within a sconce; to imprison."
],
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"(obsolete) to shut within a sconce; to imprison."
],
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"obsolete"
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"ipa": "/skɒns/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
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"ipa": "/skɑns/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
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},
{
"rhymes": "-ɒns"
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"audio": "en-us-sconce.ogg",
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"US"
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"synonyms": [
{
"word": "skonce"
}
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"word": "sconce"
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