"senter" meaning in Maltese

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    [
      "centre",
      "centre#English"
    ],
    [
      "centrefire",
      "centerfire#English"
    ],
    [
      "breech-loading",
      "breech-loading"
    ],
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      "ċentru",
      "ċentru#Maltese"
    ]
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      "expansion": "Maltese senter",
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      "expansion": "Doublet of ċentru",
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  "etymology_text": "From English centre as in centrefire (“a kind of ammunition”). Also claimed in some of the literature to be from centre-breech-loading shotgun, but such a term does not seem to exist. What does exist is a centrefire breechloader, i.e. a breech-loading shotgun that uses centrefire ammunition, and this may have been the kind of gun that Maltese senter originally referred to. Doublet of ċentru.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "snieter",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sentrijiet",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "p": "snieter",
        "p2": "sentrijiet"
      },
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      "name": "mt-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Maltese",
  "lang_code": "mt",
  "pos": "noun",
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          ],
          "english": "Shabby fields reserved only\n To the shotguns and the hounds\n Of the hunter during turtle-dove season.",
          "ref": "1976, “L-Aħħar Bidwi F'Wied il-Għasel”, performed by Sammy Bartolo and New Cuorey:",
          "text": "Raba’ żdingat biss riservat\n Għall-isnieter u għall-klieb\n Tal-kaċċatur żmien il-gamiem.",
          "translation": "Shabby fields reserved only\n To the shotguns and the hounds\n Of the hunter during turtle-dove season.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "shotgun"
      ],
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        "masculine"
      ]
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      "glosses": [
        "rifle, gun"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(less common) rifle, gun"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "xkubetta"
        }
      ],
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        "masculine",
        "uncommon"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsɛn.tɛr/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛntɛr"
    }
  ],
  "word": "senter"
}

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    "Maltese terms derived from Old French",
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    [
      "centre",
      "centre#English"
    ],
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      "centrefire",
      "centerfire#English"
    ],
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      "breech-loading",
      "breech-loading"
    ],
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      "ċentru",
      "ċentru#Maltese"
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      "expansion": "English centre",
      "name": "der"
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      "args": {
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        "2": "",
        "3": "senter"
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      "expansion": "Maltese senter",
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      "expansion": "Doublet of ċentru",
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  "etymology_text": "From English centre as in centrefire (“a kind of ammunition”). Also claimed in some of the literature to be from centre-breech-loading shotgun, but such a term does not seem to exist. What does exist is a centrefire breechloader, i.e. a breech-loading shotgun that uses centrefire ammunition, and this may have been the kind of gun that Maltese senter originally referred to. Doublet of ċentru.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "snieter",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sentrijiet",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  ],
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  "lang_code": "mt",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "english": "Shabby fields reserved only\n To the shotguns and the hounds\n Of the hunter during turtle-dove season.",
          "ref": "1976, “L-Aħħar Bidwi F'Wied il-Għasel”, performed by Sammy Bartolo and New Cuorey:",
          "text": "Raba’ żdingat biss riservat\n Għall-isnieter u għall-klieb\n Tal-kaċċatur żmien il-gamiem.",
          "translation": "Shabby fields reserved only\n To the shotguns and the hounds\n Of the hunter during turtle-dove season.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "shotgun"
      ],
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          "shotgun"
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      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
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        "rifle, gun"
      ],
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        ],
        [
          "gun",
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        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(less common) rifle, gun"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "xkubetta"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "uncommon"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsɛn.tɛr/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛntɛr"
    }
  ],
  "word": "senter"
}