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My Brother Sam is Dead Specialized Vocabulary

Page history last edited by Kaitlin C 15 years ago

Vocab Word: Brown Bess

Definition: A Soldiers Musket.

Quote: "The Brown Bess was the type of gun most everybody around Connecticut had. It was brown, and got its name from Queen Elizabeth, whose nickname was Bess, because they first used that type of gun a lot during her time. The gun was about as long as I was tall, and had a bayonet around 20 inches long."

 

Vocab Word: Cholera

Definition: A disease with violent vomiting and purging.

Quote: "That's what had happend to Father; they'd had an epidemic of Cholera on the prison ship he'd been on."

Vocab Word: Hardtack.

Definition: Large, hard cracker or biscuit used for army and navy use. 

 

 

Vocab Word: Lobsterback

Definition: A British Soldier in the Revolutionary War, named after their red uniform.

Quote: "The damn Lobsterbacks marched out of Boston yesterday."  

 

Vocab Word: Parliament

Definition: The supreme legislative assembly of Great Britian.

Quote: "Naturally in church we had to pray for the King and Parliament and that was a nuisance because it made the prayers go on longer." 

 

Vocab Word: Stockade  

Definition: A line of posts used as a barrier for defense, or enclosure for cattle. 

Quote: Then he shouted, "Seargent, take this boy up to the stockade to see Sam Meeker."

 

Vocab Word: Taproom

Definition: A place where liqours are sold; a barroom.

Quote: "Mother was out with the chickens, but Father was in the taproom sharpening the two-man saw, because

we were going out to the woodlot."  

Vocab Word: Tavern

Definition: An Inn or Public house.

Quote: "It was April, and outside in the dark the rain whipped against the windows of our tavern, making a sound like a muffled drum."   

 

Vocab Word: Tory pl. Tories  

Definition: In English Politics a Conservative; one who remained loyal to England during the American Revolution".

Quote: "There's a lot more Tories in this part of Connecticut than in the rest of the colonies."  

 

Vocab Word: Trainband

Definition: Local Militia. Soldiers used to protect the town. 

Quote: "The trainband is pretty thin here."

 

Vocab Word: Vanguard

Definition: The advance guard of an Army.

Quote:"In a moment the vanguard appeared around the bend." 

 

 

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Comments (1)

Kathleen Safi said

at 8:38 pm on Mar 10, 2009

Kaitlin-- nice work! You've met the requirement, but go ahead and add some more words. Maybe you could put in some pictures too?

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