The Underground Railroad

complicated vocabulary in Colson Whitehead's novel

complicated vocabulary in Colson Whitehead's novel


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to dazzle

to blind the eyes

to stave in

to chop off

cowrie shell

sea shell

crate of rum

chest of rum

to stagger the purchases

to put them into categories

port of call

port to touch

noxious air

poisonous air

hold of a ship

storage

to contrive

to manage

to stymy

to stop

chattel

slaves

gunwale 

rim of a boat's deck

frigate

light sailboat

procurer

supplier

venereal distemper

lacking health beqause of sexual diseases

stud

mail horse

limestone

powdery white soft stone

pickaninny

young black child (offensive)

rock candy

hard candy

glut

abundance

to be in flower

to be producing (of women)

to be fettered

to be chained

coffle

slaves chained to each other

buggy

light two-wheeled cart

Whitney's gin

18th century cotton gin

dropsy

water collection in the body

whist

card game

layabout

idle

indigo

a herb

for a stint

for a while

pliable

kind, enduring

buck

male animal

froth

entertainment

mint

money printing house

predilection

preference

hankering

desire

Ham

son of Noah, cursed for looking at his drunkard father's nakedness

pus

liquid infection

boll

envelope of the cotton seeds

to keel over

to faint and die