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Porter
"The situation - the coat, the puked porter, the absent leg..." (Doyle 6) |
noun - a heavy, dark-brown ale made with malt browned by drying at a high temperature.
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Rosary
"The rosary was whipped back into life." (Doyle 119) |
noun - series of prayers used by the Roman Catholic Church
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Banister
"Banisters that shook when held.." (Doyle 10) |
noun - railing of staircase
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Paraffin
"A paraffin lamp and a brand new bar of Sunlight soap." (Doyle 14) |
noun - a white solid substance used in candles
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Guff
"Anymore guff out of you and I'll fling you out the window." (Doyle 22) |
noun - empty or foolish talk; nonsense.
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Dole
"She still fed me, held me, doled on me." (Doyle 34) |
verb - to distribute in charity
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Vim
"He went at his work with new enthusiasm and vim." (Doyle 38) |
noun - lively or energetic spirit; enthusiasm; vitality.
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Floozy
"A leader, a genius and a floozy." (Doyle 44) |
noun - a gaudily dressed, usually immoral woman, esp. a prostitute.
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Hawker
"Out under the horses and the wheels I went, through the puddles and hawkers." (Doyle 46) |
noun - person who offers goods for sale by shouting his or her wares in the street; peddler.
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Street Arab
"I was there, at home, an instant street arab, welcome and ignored." (Doyle 47) |
noun - a person, esp. a child, who lives a homeless, vagabond life on the streets; urchin.
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Belladonna
"He was so overpowered by her magnificence, by the eyes made huge by belladonna." (Doyle 51) |
noun - a drug from the leaves and root of belladonna plant, called so because of fair ladies using it to dilate pupils
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Bunting
"Flags and bunting flapped above him, lots of red, white and blue, some green and gold." (Doyle 52) |
noun - patriotic and festive decorations made from such cloth, or from paper, usually in the form of draperies, wide streamers, etc., in the colors of the national flag.
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Fenian
"Was I a tiny Fenian?" (Doyle 54) |
noun - member of an Irish revolutionary organization founded in New York in 1858, which worked for the establishment of an independent Irish republic.
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Clout
"I could smell the water, as hard and cold on my nose as a clout from a dead man." (Doyle 59) |
noun - a blow, esp. with the hand; cuff
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Stevedore
"'Just go up to the stevedore and tell him Piano Annie sent you'" (Doyle 153) |
noun - a firm or individual engaged in the loading or unloading of a vessel.
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Bullock
"I slit one bullock's throat when it was still running and me running under it." (Doyle 70) |
noun - a young bull
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Teak
"He cut through the red teak like it was cake." (Doyle 90) |
noun - hard, durable, resinous, yellowish-brown wood used for shipbuilding, making furniture, etc.
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Gelignite
"A can full of metal chunks and a generous knob of gelignite." (Doyle 102) |
noun - explosive mixture composed of nitroglycerine, guncotton, wood pulp, and potassium nitrate.
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Whop
"Then we heard a metal whop, and then another." (Doyle 129) |
noun - sound made by a forcible blow
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Adjutant
"His adjutant, Winnie Carney, took down his thoughts and orders." (Doyle 130) |
noun - a staff officer who assists the commanding officer in issuing orders.
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Rickets
"The same old buying and robbing, bare feet and sores, matchstick legs and rickets." (Doyle 145) |
noun - a disease of childhood, characterized by softening of the bones as a result of inadequate intake of vitamin D and insufficient exposure to sunlight
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Raring
"They watched the young lads arriving, shy but big, raring to burn energy, and they knew it: they were dead." (Doyle 154) |
adj - full of eagerness and enthusiasm
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Chaff
"...the chaff whirling around my face, for a second, just for a second stop, so I wouldn't faint and die." (Doyle 156-157) |
noun - the husks and brittle particles of grains and grasses that are separated during threshing.
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Phosphorite
"A day in the bowels of a boat full of phosphorite was a message from hell and the stevedore." (Doyle 157) |
noun - a sedimentary rock sufficiently rich in phosphate minerals to be used as a source of phosphorus for fertilizers.
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Tassels
"The wire mesh for a meat safe, the tassels off the border of a Persian rug... they all came home to Annie." (Doyle 160) |
noun - A bunch of loose threads or cords bound at one end and hanging free at the other, used as an ornament on curtains or clothing, for example.
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