Glossary

Lesson 6: Glossary

Dress flax - to process the flax plant to be made into linen thread

Dunging in holes - putting manure in holes as fertilizer

Farthings - a form of English money worth one quarter of an English penny

Ferriage - fee to ride a ferry

Harrow - to break up soil using a toothed implement pulled by oxen or horses

Heifer - female calf

Mortar - a mixture used to hold together bricks

Mulatto - person who has a Black parent and a White parent

Reaping - gathering

Sundries - a variety of small things

Thrashing - or "threshing," to beat a grain (such as oats or wheat) to separate out the seeds