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{
"form": "waxed ends",
"tags": [
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"pos": "noun",
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "1939, Frank Richards, The Magnet: Loder Looks for Trouble",
"text": "He had a boot in his left hand, and, in his right, what cobblers call a wax end. He seemed very seriously at work on that boot.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A thread pointed with a bristle and covered with shoemaker's wax, used in sewing leather, as for boots, shoes, etc."
],
"id": "en-waxed_end-en-noun-assvLzoS",
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"thread"
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"pointed",
"pointed"
],
[
"bristle",
"bristle"
],
[
"shoemaker's wax",
"shoemaker's wax"
],
[
"sew",
"sew"
],
[
"leather",
"leather"
],
[
"boot",
"boot"
],
[
"shoe",
"shoe"
]
],
"synonyms": [
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"word": "wax end"
},
{
"word": "wax-end"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "type of thread",
"word": "pikilanka"
},
{
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "type of thread",
"word": "vervi"
}
]
}
],
"word": "waxed end"
}
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"tags": [
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "1939, Frank Richards, The Magnet: Loder Looks for Trouble",
"text": "He had a boot in his left hand, and, in his right, what cobblers call a wax end. He seemed very seriously at work on that boot.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"A thread pointed with a bristle and covered with shoemaker's wax, used in sewing leather, as for boots, shoes, etc."
],
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[
"thread",
"thread"
],
[
"pointed",
"pointed"
],
[
"bristle",
"bristle"
],
[
"shoemaker's wax",
"shoemaker's wax"
],
[
"sew",
"sew"
],
[
"leather",
"leather"
],
[
"boot",
"boot"
],
[
"shoe",
"shoe"
]
]
}
],
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"word": "wax end"
},
{
"word": "wax-end"
}
],
"translations": [
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "type of thread",
"word": "pikilanka"
},
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"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "type of thread",
"word": "vervi"
}
],
"word": "waxed end"
}
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