noun
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a prop or support (that supports from below or a side).
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an obstacle; an impediment.
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the extent to which something is extended.
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a wooden or iron bar for preventing a closed door from being opened.
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a kind of disease, characterised by swelling of the belly, caused by indigestion.
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(rhet.) an interlude or introductory scene in which something which is supposed to have happened.
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(astrol.) the first of the twenty-seven astronomical periods called Yōgas.