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GLOSSARY

ADZE: cutting tool with a thin, arched blade and is used for
shaping wood

BREECHES: pants that fit snugly and end just below the knees
CHINKED: filled in the spaces in between the logs of a cabin with
mud or moss

FARRIER: one who shoes horses and treats their ailments
FROE: cleaving tool for splitting shingles

HEW: to fell by the blows of an ax

KEELBOAT : shallow, covered riverboat that is poled and used for
freight
PANTALOONS: loose-fitting trousers
PETTICOAT: lower part of a dress
PLASTERS: medicated dressings applied to heal and soothe

PORTAGE : land over which Native Americans and explorers passed
while traveling to other waterways
POTAWATOMI : tribal name used by the French for the Nesh-na-bek , or
"the true people. The Algonquian name means "the people of the
place of fire," "fire maker nation," or "keepers of fire."

POULTICES: medicated cloths applied to sores
PUNCHEONS: split log with the split part smoothed for flooring
SCYTHE: tool used for cutting grain made of a long, curved blade
fastened to a long handle

SHEATH: covering for a blade

TOMAHAWK light ax used as a hand weapon by Native Americans and
frontiersmen
TROUSERS : garment extending from the waist to the ankles
WAISTCOAT: garment worn about the waist under a coat; a vest