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what did you just say (to me)?; what's that?

4

to brush away; to sweep aside; to repel (e.g. enemy); to drive away; to rout

2

navy (esp. the Japanese navy prior to the 1850s)

1

organization; organisation; structure; construction; system (e.g. railroad, transport, party, etc.); tissue; texture (of a rock)

2

dull; uninteresting; insignificant; unimportant; absurd; foolish

4

(a) little; somewhat; somehow

4

a telegraph

1

encyclopedia; encyclopaedia

1

himself; yourself; herself

4

hand; arm; forepaw; foreleg; handle; hand; worker

54

sashimi; make-up

1

ordinary; common; free of charge; unaffected; as is; only

50

one person; being alone; being by oneself; being single; being unmarried; by oneself

46

to make; to produce; to prepare (food); to brew (alcohol); to raise; to grow; to till

127

technology; engineering; technique; skill; art; craft

8

Japanese person; Japanese people

9

there is no need to ...; never happens; there is never a time when

6

yes; yea; aye; (arch.) to be so

1

earth; ground; place; territory; bottom (of a package, book, etc.); earth (one of the five elements)

42

row; line; company (of someone); group; sequence; counter for rows

5

battle formation; camp; encampment; group; gang; war

7

not only ... (but also); not merely; as well as; furthermore; besides; moreover

2

in succession; one by one

10

art; technique; means; way; trick; trap

11

to use; to make use of; to utilize; to utilise

6

revolution; 58th year of the sexagenary cycle (in Onmyōdō)

1

copybook; model; pattern

4

arithmetic

4

hut; house; boarding house; school dormitory; (arch.) one day's march (approx. 12.2 km)

10

dense; thick; close (relationship); intimate; minute; fine

13

military science; strategy; tactics

2

medical science; medicine

1

spacious; vast; wide

9

cannon

5

another place; somewhere else; outside (one's family or group); someone else; not caring for; being indifferent to

8

chimes; toll of a bell

11

time; appointed time

6

number; amount

12

way to shoot; how to shoot

3

under (guidance, supervision, rules, the law, etc.); under (a flag, the sun, etc.); beneath; with (e.g. one blow); on (the promise, condition, assumption, etc. that ...); (somebody's) side

18

knowledge; information

13

imprudence; misbehavior; misbehaviour; misunderstanding

2

to make a fresh start; to turn over a new leaf; to call again; to visit again; to come again

2

another time; again; over again; formally; especially; intentionally

14

oh; ah; I'll be darned

4

intimacy; familiarity; closeness

1

I; me

4

to excel; to surpass; to exceed; to outweigh; to preponderate

6

shogunate retainer; shogunate vassal

6

Tajima (former province located in the north of present-day Hyōgo Prefecture)

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