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"ref": "1923, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Creeping Man",
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"ref": "1964, Issac Asimov, Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology",
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"ref": "2005, Tony Judt, “The Social Democratic Moment”, in Postwar: A history of Europe since 1945, London: Vintage Books, published 2010",
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"ref": "2010, Jennifer Egan, “Goodbye, My Love”, in A Visit from the Goon Squad",
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"ref": "2022 January 4, Mark Landler, “Prince Andrew’s Uncertain Legal Fate Casts Shadow on Britain’s Royals”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
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],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "skein (third-person singular simple present skeins, present participle skeining, simple past and past participle skeined)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"To wind or weave into a skein."
],
"links": [
[
"wind",
"wind"
],
[
"weave",
"weave"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/skeɪn/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-eɪn"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-skein.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/2f/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-skein.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-skein.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/2f/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-skein.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-skein.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
},
{
"enpr": "skān"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "skean"
},
{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "skain"
}
],
"word": "skein"
}
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