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Staples

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U-shaped piece of metal used to keep dancing wire in place

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Sedge

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Grasslike plant

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Cedar

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A tree (fragrant wood)

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Floundered

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To struggle clumsily

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Bedlam

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A state of wild uproar and confusion

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Hillocks

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Small hills

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Hibernating

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Spending the winter in a dormant, sleep like state

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Kerfs

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Cuts

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Lope

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Walking with long easy strides

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Cochere

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Carriage port, which a horse and carriage can pass

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Privet

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Plant used for hedges

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Kilned

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Appeared white

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Sleavings

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Anything ripped of raveled

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Buckled

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Sheiveled, curled

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Soffits

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Understood of an architectural structure

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Chattel slaves

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Slave owned as domestic property

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Trod

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Tread, trod, trodden (walk, set foot on)

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Morris paper

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Fine quality wallpaper from WP

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Swags

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A garland fastened up in each end and hanging down the middle

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Ample

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Sufficient. More than enough

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Mantel

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Flame around an open firehouse

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Pried

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Separated by leverage

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Hearth

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The floor of a fireplace

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Adjoining

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Located next to another

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Harrow
Farm machinery, device with spokes to turn up the ground
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Castiron cauldron
Large kettle or boiler
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Rendering hogs
Boiling the pigs to extract fat
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Tang
Protective part of tool used to fasten other part
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Canebreak
Dense thicket of sugar cane
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Veer
To change direction
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Hemispheres
Area in which something occurs or dominates
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Handedness
Tendency which hand to use
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Accrue
Grow, increase
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Illucid
Not lucid (not shiny and bright)

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