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Little House vocab
vocab ch. 11-13
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| cradles | a framework of support / a sharp steel blade fastened to wooden slats |
| grain | a small hard seed or kernel of cereal |
| stalk | the main part of a plant |
| hulls | hard outer covering of a seed |
| shock | a group or bundle of grain |
| whetstone | a stone used to sharpen a knife |
| rind | tough outer layer that may be peeled |
| braid | to interweave three or more strands of something |
| eight-horsepower | a machine used to process wheat (it had the power of eight horses) |
| yellow jacket | a wasp |
| separator | machine used to separate grain from straw |
| progress | to move forward / to advance |
| herbs | a plant used as medicine or food |
| horrified | strong emotion caused by disgust |
| monstrously | horrible / extremely bad |
| Threshing machine | a machine used to separate seed from the plant / replaced the threshers |
| yearling | an animal that is one year old |
| deerling | salt that occurs naturally that animal’s come to lick |
| fiddle | a violiin |