Huck Finn

Question 1

Sugar-hogshead

Answer 1

Watertight barrel

Question 2

Bulrushers

Answer 2

Tall, tufted plants

Question 3

Snuff

Answer 3

Powdered tobacco that is sniffed

Question 4

Skiff

Answer 4

A small riverboat

Question 5

Providence

Answer 5

God as a supreme power guiding human beings and “providing” for their needs

Question 6

Hived

Answer 6

To be stolen from

Question 7

Pow-wow

Answer 7

A noisy meeting of discussion

Question 8

Shot tower

Answer 8

A tall tower in which hot, molten lead was dropped through a sleeve into a cold water to form the small round pellets used as buckshot in a shotgun

Question 9

Highfalutin’

Answer 9

Vain

Question 10

Cowhide

Answer 10

A beating with a leather belt of strap

Question 11

Pungle

Answer 11

To pay up, contribute

Question 12

Temperance

Answer 12

Staying calm

Question 13

Forty-rod

Answer 13

Powerful whiskey

Question 14

Wadding

Answer 14

Stuffing that held gun powder and shot in place in a muzzle-loading gun

Question 15

Tow

Answer 15

Ropelike fibers

Question 16

Calico

Answer 16

A printed cotton cloth

Question 17

Barlow knife

Answer 17

Large pocket knife with a single blade

Question 18

Reticule

Answer 18

A small purse or handbag used by women

Question 19

Currycomb

Answer 19

A large comb with metal teeth for cleansing a horse or other domestic animal

Question 20

Lynched

Answer 20

Hanged by a mob

Question 21

Hank

Answer 21

A coil of yarn

Question 22

Hocus

Answer 22

Fool or deceive

Question 23

Yonder

Answer 23

Over there

Question 24

P’simmons

Answer 24

Orang, plum like berries

Question 25

Labboard

Answer 25

Left side of the ship

Question 26

Crawfished

Answer 26

Retreat by scuttling

Question 27

Treed

Answer 27

Trapped in a tree

Question 28

Rustle

Answer 28

To steal

Question 29

Sweeps

Answer 29

Long heavy oars

Question 30

Ell

Answer 30

Old English equal to 45 inches

Question 31

Looard

Answer 31

Downwind

Question 32

Donjon-keep

Answer 32

Maximum security cell

Question 33

Mosey

Answer 33

Move along

Question 34

Wool-gathering

Answer 34

Inattentive or given to fits of abstraction

Question 35

Addled

Answer 35

Confused or mixed up

Question 36

Relicts

Answer 36

Widows

Question 37

Scutcheon

Answer 37

Shield

Question 38

Natural son

Answer 38

A son born out of wedlock

Question 39

Blithesome

Answer 39

Merry

Question 40

Mullet-head

Answer 40

Being stupid

Question 41

Rips

Answer 41

Low, worthless persons

Question 42

Old Harry

Answer 42

The devil

Question 43

Trapse

Answer 43

Wander