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Chickens Meat
Chicken's food; in this case, barley (referred to here sometimes as corn), which Crusoe realizes must have germinated and sprouted.
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Staves
Wooden planks from which barrels are made.
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Cask to be hooped
A typical wooden barrel, consisting of vertical wooden staves bound with lateral metal hoops.
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Runlet
A roundlet, or, in wine-measure, a barrel holding about 48 gallons.
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jealous
Fearful, apprehensive, or wary.
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Hodd
An open receptacle for carrying mortar, bricks, stones, or coal.
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Iron Gudgeons
The cylindrical shaft running through the center of a wheel, upon which it pivots.
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shoal
Shallow
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overset
Overturned
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Magazine
Storehouse
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Adze
A tool like a pickax, with a blade at right angles to the handle.
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Works
Some subsequent editions misread this word as the intransitive verb "to work," printing the line as "I set my self to enlarge my Cave, and work farther into the Earth." However, the first edition treats it as a noun.
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Iron Crows
Crowbars
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husbanded
Economized or eked out, so they would last
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Popish
Catholic
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240 l.
240 lb.
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tho’ had the Powder took fire, I had never known who had hurt me.
Had the explosive gunpowder caught fire from the lightning, Crusoe would ironically not have survived the explosion to have suffered harm at the hands of man or beast.
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Semi-diameter
Radius
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Spritsail-yard, and the Missen-yard
The cross-beams attached at right angles to the masts, from which the various sails hang
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Hawser
A large rope used in warping or mooring a ship
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Hogshead of Bread
A large cask, or a quantity sufficient to fill a hogshead
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Maggazin
Here not referring exclusively to an arsenal of weaponry, but more generally to Crusoe's store of provisions.
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fain
Eager
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Iron Crows
Crowbars
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Grindstone
A stone on which to sharpen stone tools
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Powder-horns
A container for gunpowder, made from an ox or buffalo horn.
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Rack
A kind of liqueur
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Cordial Waters
Medicinal concoctions, often consisting of brandy or whiskey mixed with various spices.
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Skipper
Master of the ship
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Application
Ingenuity and determination (archaic usage)
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Forecastle
The forward part of a ship below the main deck, usually the crew's living quarters.
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a Furlong
One eighth of a mile, or 220 yards.
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two Shoes that were not Fellows
did not comprise a single pair
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a League and a Half
Approximately three and a half miles
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Coup de Grace
Death blow
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a-stern of us
Towards the rear of the boat
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under the Lee of the Land
In such a position that the land intercepts the wind, so that it does not buffet the boat.
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Den wild Zee
"The wild sea"
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stav’d
The hull probably bashed in
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Calenture
Feverish delirium prevalent in the tropics.
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straiten’d for
lacking
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Pounds Sterl.
British pounds are also referred to as pounds sterling.
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Ducats
A gold or silver trade coin, formerly current in most European countries.
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80 Pieces of Eight
Eighty Spanish dollars ("Pieces of eight" were so called because one was worth eight Spanish reales.)
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to a tittle
Down to the smallest detail; to the highest degree
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Antient
INSERT NOTE HERE.
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Antient and Pendants
INSERT NOTE HERE.
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almost Musquet-bore
"Bore" refers to the interior of the barrel of a gun, and the diameter of the bore determines the calibre. Crusoe's gun, then, is musket calibre.
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Slugs
Bullets
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a Dram
A small portion of a drink; a swig or sip.
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if any of our Vessels were in Chase of me, they also would now give over
If any of his Master's men had tried to follow him, he was by now so far away that they would have given up.
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presented
Aimed
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Fowling-pieces
Guns
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Twist
Crotch
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Curlieus
A wading bird of mottled brown color with a long, slender beak. [Insert picture of a curlew here.]
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gib’d
Shifted from one side of the vessel to the other when running before the wind.
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Maresco
Moor
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Usage I had there
Treatment I experienced there
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Broadside
The battery of cannon located on the side of the ship; cannon fire.
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the Line
The Equator
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Calenture
Feverish delirium
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300 l
Three hundred British pounds.
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L. 5.9 Ounces
5 lb, 9 oz.
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Adventure
Quantity of capital or valuables
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40 l.
Forty pounds
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Mess-mate
Person with whom one regularly takes meals.
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Fore-mast Man
Common sailor
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if the Boat was stav’d upon Shore he would make it good to their Master
If the boat was crushed or damaged while running aground, he would reimburse their master.
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Colliers
Coal barges.
(Shinagel 12; footnote 6)
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Boat-Swain
Senior crew member.
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at all Adventures
At the mercy of all risks/dangers.
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Steerage
The lower deck of a ship, just below the main deck and above the ballast; lower classes of passengers often purchased cheaper tickets to travel in this part of the ship.
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Sheet Anchor
A very large, heavy spare anchor stored in the waist of the ship, used in emergencies.
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come home
Come loose.
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Forecastle in
With the bow (the foremost part of the hull) in the water.
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rid
Remained anchored; floated stationary.
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Ground-Tackle
Equipment used to anchor a ship.
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inur’d
Having grown accustomed to something unpleasant.
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Elopement
Here merely the general action of fleeing, with no associations of secretive marriage.
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move
Propose.
(Shinagel 8, footnote 6)
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mechanick
Relating to manual labor.
(Shinagel 6, footnote 2)
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warmly
Heatedly, vehemently; as opposed to affectionately.
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Design
My intended purpose; but also with a possible foreshadowing of the way that the design of fate or Providence will play a role in Crusoe's life.
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dispatch’d
That such books as this will be read quickly, so that the truth of the narrative has no bearing on its value as entertainment or instruction.
(See Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe Ed. Michael Shinagel. (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1978), p. 3, footnote 1)
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viz.
Abbreviation for Lat. videlicet, meaning here "namely."
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gunrest
The picture doesn't show the round central 'gunrest' that Joyce implies, though the outer ring might more accurately have been called by that term.
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Торгоны зам
I was wondering if there was a connection between the second word in төмөр зам meaning railway and road. Now I find the same morpheme in the word for silk road (title of this webpage). Cool.
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precludes
to prevent something from happening
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