7th - Shane Western Terms
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Created by:
pmollheritagehall on November 22, 2010
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Study Group: All Subjects 7th Grade
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34 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 lean-to | slope-roofed structure |
| flapjacks/flannel cakes | pancakes |
| tussle | struggle |
| millinery | hat fashion |
| fripper | gaudy clothes |
| clutivator | soil-breaking implement |
| tariff | price |
| tinhorn | pretentious,ignorant person |
| hone | tool-harpening stone |
| whistle stop | small town |
| taproot | main root |
| bole | tree trunk |
| bantering | playful teasing |
| joshing | teasing |
| cowpuncher | cowboy |
| homesteader | settler of 160 acre tract of U.S. public land granted as a farm |
| mule-skinner | driver of mules |
| fodder | cattle food |
| lawing | legal business |
| drummer | traveling salesman |
| due/dandy | man who gives exaggerated atteniton to his dress |
| nester | settler |
| foreman | chief worker |
| ante | gambling stake |
| pommel | projection at the front of a saddle |
| curry | brush |
| fidget | move nervously |
| wrangle | quarrel noisily |
| rowel | spur |
| sicced | sent to attack |
| badgered | nagged |
| spruce | neat and trim |
| fidd-footed | wandering |
| rollicking | carefree |
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