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"text": "[…]iron Bar forming a Tailing for the stones which lie in the doorways",
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"(architecture) The part of a projecting stone or brick inserted in a wall."
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"The lighter parts of grain separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing; chaff."
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"(obsolete) The lighter parts of grain separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing; chaff."
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"current",
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