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Old Yeller Chapt 2/3
Vocabulary for Chapter 2 and 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| middling meat | pork or bacon cut from between the ham and shoulder of a pig, salt pork |
| gnawed | to bite or eat away with persistance |
| whetted | make keen or more acute |
| withers | the highest part of the back at the base of the neck of various animals especially draft animals |
| gnarled | twist into a state of deformity |
| outcropping | the part of a rock formation that appears above the surface of the surrounding land; dark rocks with black streaks in them |
| tush | A canine tooth |
| roan | having a brownish coat thickly sprinkled with white or gray |
| baying | to pursue with barking |
| venison | deer meat |