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"Power; strength."
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"(UK dialectal) Power; strength."
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"(UK dialectal) Command; control; possession."
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},
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"English terms inherited from Middle English",
"English terms inherited from Old English",
"English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
"English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
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"English terms with audio links",
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"3": "",
"4": "wald",
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"4": "",
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"ref": "1812, Walter Scott, Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Digitized edition, page 124",
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"ref": "1853, Robert Simpson, History of Sanquhar, page 16",
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},
{
"ref": "1857, George Bradshaw, Bradshaw's illustrated hand-book to Switzerland and the Tyrol, Digitized edition, published 2006, page 1",
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