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[
"stock",
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[
"kindred",
"kindred"
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{
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"Real estate; owned land."
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[
"land",
"land"
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"tags": [
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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}
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"extra": "to cover in lead",
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"Alternative form of leden (“to cover in lead”)"
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Middle English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (a644e18 and edd475d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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