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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

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Farm machinery, device with spokes to turn up the ground

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Castiron cauldron

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Large kettle or boiler

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Rendering hogs

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Boiling the pigs to extract fat

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Tang

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Protective part of tool used to fasten other part

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Canebreak

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Dense thicket of sugar cane

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Veer

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To change direction

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Hemispheres

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Area in which something occurs or dominates

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Handedness

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Tendency which hand to use

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Accrue

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Grow, increase

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Illucid

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Not lucid (not shiny and bright)