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Pig-iron
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Crude iron, as it comes from the blast furnance
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Sidled
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to move sideways especially shyly or stealthily
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stanch
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to check the flow of
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Suss
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to inspect or investigate so as to gain more knowledge
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Vanguard
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The part of an army which goes ahead of the main body
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Connubial
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of marriage; conjugal
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Purgatorial
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a state or place after death in some Christian Doctrine for expiating sins by suffering
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Recrimination
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to answer an accuser by accusing that person in return
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Saraband
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A state court dance of the 17th and 18th centuries resembling the minuet
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Triumvirate
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A government by three persons or pairtes
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