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"word": "varpu"
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"ref": "1862, James Fenimore Cooper, The Deerslayer, page 341",
"text": "As soon as the body of Deerslayer was withed in bark sufficiently to create a lively sense of helplessness, he was literally carried to a young tree, and bound against it, in a way that effectually prevented it from moving,",
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"ref": "1888, Virgil Chittenden Hart, Western China: a journey to the great Buddhist centre of Mount Omei, page 132",
"text": "These frames are usually constructed of rough trees tightly withed and wedged together.",
"type": "quotation"
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"ref": "1890, Edward Augustus Samuels, With fly-rod and camera, page 184",
"text": "The strips are first laid on the back and two sides of the shanty, and are kept smooth and in proper position by poles laid across them and withed down to the frame.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "1913, Newton Horace Winchell with Minnesota Historical Society, The weathering of aboriginal stone artifacts, no. 1, page 121",
"text": "If it were withed by the aborigine it would have formed an effective and dangerous weapon, either in the chase of the large beasts with which he was contemporary or in war against his human enemies.",
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"ref": "1888 June 30, Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia., “State v. Davis.”, in The Southeastern reporter, volume 7",
"text": "Question. Did you hear of the circumstances of William Davis having been whipped on the 5th day of December, the day before the cutting took place? Answer Yes, sir; I did that evening, when he came home. Q. Did you examine where he had been withed? A. Yes, sir.",
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"ref": "1901, Oren Frederic Morton, Winning or losing?: a story of the West Virginia Hills",
"text": "\"He'll trim you up for tossing Suse that note,\" said Am Bayne to his own companion. / \"Ye-es, and you'll get a withing, too,\" declared the other.",
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"English terms with quotations"
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "1888 June 30, Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia., “State v. Davis.”, in The Southeastern reporter, volume 7",
"text": "Question. Did you hear of the circumstances of William Davis having been whipped on the 5th day of December, the day before the cutting took place? Answer Yes, sir; I did that evening, when he came home. Q. Did you examine where he had been withed? A. Yes, sir.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1901, Oren Frederic Morton, Winning or losing?: a story of the West Virginia Hills",
"text": "\"He'll trim you up for tossing Suse that note,\" said Am Bayne to his own companion. / \"Ye-es, and you'll get a withing, too,\" declared the other.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1913, Richard Nye Price, Holston Methodism, volume 4, page 494",
"text": "After I was on they commenced withing my horse to make him go faster, but I reined him up; ... They then commenced withing me around the shoulders, saying it would have a better effect than to whip the horse.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To beat with withes."
],
"links": [
[
"withe",
"#Noun"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/wɪθ/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/wɪð/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/waɪð/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/wɪθ/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/wɪð/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪθ"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪð"
},
{
"rhymes": "-aɪð"
},
{
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"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/61/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-withe.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-withe.wav.mp3",
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-withe2.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a9/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-withe2.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-withe2.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a9/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-withe2.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-withe2.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-withe3.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/15/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-withe3.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-withe3.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/15/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-withe3.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-withe3.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
},
{
"enpr": "wĭth",
"tags": [
"US"
]
}
],
"word": "withe"
}
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