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"ref": "2019, Robert Eggers, Max Eggers, The Lighthouse (motion picture), spoken by Thomas Wake (Willem Dafoe):",
"text": "Don’t be so darn foolish. It’s the calm afore the storm, Winslow. She were a gentle westerly wind yer cursin’. Only feels roughly ‘cause you don’t know nothin’ bout nothin’ and there ain’t no trees on this here rock like your Hudson Bay bush. Nor’Easterly wind’ll come soon a-blowin’ like Gabriel’s horn. Best board up them signal house winders.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Pronunciation spelling of window."
],
"links": [
[
"Pronunciation spelling",
"pronunciation spelling"
],
[
"window",
"window#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"pronunciation-spelling"
]
}
],
"word": "winder"
}
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