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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
A harpoon with one or more pivoted crosspieces in a mortise near the point to prevent it from being drawn out when a whale, shark, or other animal, is harpooned.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
From the resemblance of the pivoted crosspiece to a toggle.
