Chapter 5 Flashcards
Board
The people who directed a particular business in this case the workhouse
Work house
A louse in which poor people are lodged and sent to work
Beadle
The people in day to day charge of the workhouse
Capital
Excellent
Oakum
Loose fibres picked from old ropes that are used to caulk ships.
Pauper?
A person with no money at all
Copper
Large boiler used for cooking or laundering
Gruel
A light thin liquid made by boiling a cereal such as oatmeal in water.
Porringer
One handed metal bowl or cup.
Assiduously
Attentively
Voracious
Extremely hungry
Per diem
Per day
Implicitly
Implied not openly stated
Short commons
Small amount of foods
Temerity
Reckless boldness
Stupefied
To be struck senless
To pinion
To be blond or hold fast
Dietary
A regulated allowance of food
To controvert
To deny or disput
Prophetic
Giving warning of what is to come
Ever and anon
Now and again
To incarcerate
To imprisome
Ablution
Washing
To console
To comfort
To supplicate
To beg
To entreat
To beg
Revolution
A complete change in something the overthrow of a government
Technology
New inventions; the science of the industry
Global
Worldwide
Mother country
In the language of the colonist the colonizing power was often referred as the mother country, a sexist reference no longer used
Industrial
An economy named on industry not agriculture.
To exploit
To use
Global warming
An increase in the worlds temperature
Ozone layer
A layer of gas above the earths surface that protects human beings from harmful rays of the sun
Labour supple
A supply of workers
Test act
An act forbidding anyone except the members of the Church of England from holding political office or entering the professions
Capital
Money used to invest in businesses
Raw materials
The essential materials neede in an industry to make a product
Inefficient
Unproductive, inadequate in proforms cue
Commons
Land held to be used by everyone
To graze
on feed growing plants such as grass
Fodder
Animal food
To broadcast
To sow seeds by throwing them over a field by hand
Entrepreneur
A person who runs a business taking the risk in order to gain profit
Franchise
The right to vote
Self interest
Action in ones own interest rather than in another
Synthetic
Made by humans
Demand
Desire for particular goods
To seep
To trickle slowly
Compressed steam
Steam under pressure
Cast iron
Molten iron poured into a mould to make a products
Market
Those wishing to purchase goods
Toll
A fee for using a road
Locomotive
A steam engine designed to pull cars on a railway
Capitalist
A person with money to invest
Clothier
A capitalist who invests money in textile making
Supply
The amount of goods available
Demand
The desire of people to buy a certain good or product
Mother Teresa
A nun who devoted her life to care for the poor and diseased in India
Social reformers
People who wish to change the nature of society
Labour unions
Organization devoted to improving conditions for their members
Society
In this context upper class
Idealized
Nog realistic
To speculate
To buy land in the expectation
Absent
Away in this case owners who owned land but did not live on it
