"ventifact" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Blend of vent (“wind”) + artifact (“an object shaped or created by some process or agency”) from French vent from Latin ventus",
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        {
          "ref": "1949, Kenneth Page Oakley, Man the Tool-Maker",
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        "A pebble or little stone shaped and polished by wind-blown sand."
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          "wind-blown",
          "wind-blown"
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        {
          "word": "windkanter"
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          "sense": "ventifact",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "word": "Windkanter"
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          "sense": "ventifact",
          "word": "façetalı çakıl"
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        "plural"
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        "masculine"
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      "sense": "ventifact",
      "word": "façetalı çakıl"
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