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"ref": "1915, Florence Kiper Frank, The Jew to Jesus: and other poems",
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"text": "Halfway through the production of Macbeth, the director found that the stage was smaller than he expected. This really threw a spanner in the works."
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"word": "гайкови́й ключ"
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"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "mutróvyj ključ",
"sense": "hand tool for adjusting nuts and bolts",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "мутро́вий ключ"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "hand tool for adjusting nuts and bolts",
"word": "sbaner"
},
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"lang": "German",
"sense": "something unexpected or troublesome",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Knüppel (zwischen den Beinen)"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "something unexpected or troublesome",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Sand (im Getriebe)"
}
],
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"spanner"
],
"word": "spanner"
}
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"tags": [
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"form": "spannering",
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{
"glosses": [
"To use a spanner; to fix with a spanner"
],
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"fix",
"fix"
]
]
}
],
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"ipa": "/ˈspæn.ə(ɹ)/",
"tags": [
"UK"
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"ipa": "/ˈspæn.ɚ/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ænə(ɹ)"
},
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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/En-us-spanner.ogg",
"tags": [
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"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/4c/En-au-spanner.ogg/En-au-spanner.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/En-au-spanner.ogg",
"tags": [
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{
"enpr": "spăn'ə(r)"
},
{
"enpr": "spăn'ər"
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],
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"spanner"
],
"word": "spanner"
}
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