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"text": "1860, Hugh MacDonald, Days at the Coast: A Series of Sketches Descriptive of the Firth of Clyde, Glasgow, page 255,\nThere is a comfortable inn at this picturesque spot, where those who purpose speeling the lofty Ben generally prepare for their arduous undertaking."
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"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English dialectal terms",
"English rustic terms",
"English terms with usage examples",
"Northern England English",
"Scottish English"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "To speel ba'.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To lake, play, sport, take amusement."
],
"links": [
[
"lake",
"lake"
],
[
"play",
"play"
],
[
"sport",
"sport"
],
[
"take",
"take"
],
[
"amusement",
"amusement"
]
],
"qualifier": "rustic",
"raw_glosses": [
"(dialectal, rustic, Northern England, Scotland) To lake, play, sport, take amusement."
],
"tags": [
"Northern-England",
"Scotland",
"dialectal"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "en-au-speel.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/22/En-au-speel.ogg/En-au-speel.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/En-au-speel.ogg"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "speil"
},
{
"word": "spele"
},
{
"word": "speal"
},
{
"word": "spiel"
},
{
"word": "spael"
}
],
"word": "speel"
}
Download raw JSONL data for speel meaning in English (17.7kB)
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: Cumbria, Lincolnshire",
"path": [
"speel"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "speel",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: Cumbria, Lincolnshire",
"path": [
"speel"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "speel",
"trace": ""
}
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