"spong" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: spongs [plural]
Etymology: Probably Norwegian. Head templates: {{en-noun}} spong (plural spongs)
  1. (obsolete) A long and narrow piece of land, resembling a tongue, especially a short peninsula. Tags: obsolete Categories (place): Landforms
    Sense id: en-spong-en-noun-NPpHzCBC Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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  "etymology_text": "Probably Norwegian.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "spongs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "spong (plural spongs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
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  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Landforms",
          "orig": "en:Landforms",
          "parents": [
            "Earth",
            "Places",
            "Nature",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A long and narrow piece of land, resembling a tongue, especially a short peninsula."
      ],
      "id": "en-spong-en-noun-NPpHzCBC",
      "links": [
        [
          "land",
          "land"
        ],
        [
          "tongue",
          "tongue"
        ],
        [
          "peninsula",
          "peninsula"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) A long and narrow piece of land, resembling a tongue, especially a short peninsula."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "spong"
}
{
  "etymology_text": "Probably Norwegian.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "spongs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "spong (plural spongs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Landforms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A long and narrow piece of land, resembling a tongue, especially a short peninsula."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "land",
          "land"
        ],
        [
          "tongue",
          "tongue"
        ],
        [
          "peninsula",
          "peninsula"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) A long and narrow piece of land, resembling a tongue, especially a short peninsula."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "spong"
}

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