"chéant" meaning in French

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cheyant",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "present participle"
      },
      "expansion": "chéant",
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "French entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
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            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
        },
        {
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          "source": "w"
        },
        {
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2013, Maurice Druon, edited by Place des éditeurs, Les rois maudits - L'intégrale, Volume 1, chapter XI:",
          "text": "– Mon fils est tombé faible en sortant du Palais, tant les choses qu’avait entendues lui avaient donné tournement, dit Madame Blanche de Bretagne.\n– Tombé faible, vraiment ? répondit Philippe de Poitiers. J’espère qu’il ne s’est pas blessé en chéant de si haut !",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1925-1934, Sébastien Faure, edited by La Librairie internationale, Encyclopédie anarchiste, Tome 3, page 1383:",
          "text": "MALCHANCE (et CHANCE). n. f. de mal et chance. « Le mot chance, chéance, kéance, kéanche (latin cadencia, de cadere, choir) était d’abord un terme du jeu de dés et signifiait le point que donne un dé en tombant (chéant) sur la table, ou bien encore un coup de dé » (Larousse).",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "choir"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "present participle of choir"
      ],
      "id": "en-chéant-fr-verb-03O74T1v",
      "links": [
        [
          "choir",
          "choir#French"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(very rare) present participle of choir"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "participle",
        "present",
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ʃe.ɑ̃/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "chéant"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cheyant",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "present participle"
      },
      "expansion": "chéant",
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "French 2-syllable words",
        "French entries with incorrect language header",
        "French non-lemma forms",
        "French present participles",
        "French terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "French terms with quotations",
        "French terms with rare senses",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Requests for translations of French quotations"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2013, Maurice Druon, edited by Place des éditeurs, Les rois maudits - L'intégrale, Volume 1, chapter XI:",
          "text": "– Mon fils est tombé faible en sortant du Palais, tant les choses qu’avait entendues lui avaient donné tournement, dit Madame Blanche de Bretagne.\n– Tombé faible, vraiment ? répondit Philippe de Poitiers. J’espère qu’il ne s’est pas blessé en chéant de si haut !",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1925-1934, Sébastien Faure, edited by La Librairie internationale, Encyclopédie anarchiste, Tome 3, page 1383:",
          "text": "MALCHANCE (et CHANCE). n. f. de mal et chance. « Le mot chance, chéance, kéance, kéanche (latin cadencia, de cadere, choir) était d’abord un terme du jeu de dés et signifiait le point que donne un dé en tombant (chéant) sur la table, ou bien encore un coup de dé » (Larousse).",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "choir"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "present participle of choir"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "choir",
          "choir#French"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(very rare) present participle of choir"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "participle",
        "present",
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ʃe.ɑ̃/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "chéant"
}