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"ref": "1868, Great Britain Patent Office, Bennet Woodcroft, Patents for Inventions",
"text": "The superabundant wax is next removed, and two coats of paint laid over the entire surface of both plate and letters, the projecting letters being afterwards painted, by the aid of a tamkin or rubber, in a different colour or shade from that of the plate, the whole being finally coated with copal or caoutchouc varnish.",
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"text": "Charges, moreover, shall be made for storage, warehousing, and porterage ; for wharfage, cranes, locks, tamkins, sealing of packages, raftiehs, keshfs, declarations, measuring, etc., according to special regulations.",
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"text": "Its course was punctuated by tamkins, small brick buildings whose name, a variant of the word \"tompion,\" still in use for the plug closing the muzzle of a gun, denoted their purpose: an access point for plugging off sections which required isolation so that repairs could be carried out.",
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"ref": "1996, Mai Yamani, Feminism and Islam: Legal and Literary Perspectives, page 294",
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"ref": "2002, Hammed Shahidian, Women in Iran: Emerging voices in the women's movement, page 56",
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"text": "Since Islam claims to be opposed to injustice, any law that upholds injustice is anti-Islamic — and if a law is anti-Islamic, it must change. Reformist Islamist women have also proposed to modify the issue of tamkin.",
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