Vocabulary

pebble throwing game played by young girls

freeholding farmer (Edo period); freeholding peasant

lower class peasant (during the Middle Ages and early modern period); peasant working for a land-owning farmer

third-rate company director; executive in name only

unloading a barge

traveler; traveller; stranger

wooden pillow

ex-girlfriend; former girlfriend

ultra-high temperature (pasteurization); UHT

being square-jawed

bare minimum; minimum necessary (amount, number, etc.)

The Great (e.g. in film and book titles); The Grand

neo-Gothic

railway turntable

control flow; flow of control

time of pitch

tag out; tag

foul fly

holiday allowance; allowance for working at weekends or on a holiday

small stone; pebble

toxemia; toxaemia

extraordinary loss

bowler hat; felt hat

extraordinary gain

fur hat; wool hat

physiological saline; normal saline; saline solution

subnormal number; denormal number; denormalized number

subnormal number; denormal number; denormalized number

phonograph wax cylinder; phonograph cylinder

to digress; to stray from the subject

highly skilled professionals (esp. as category of immigrants); highly talented personnel

please; please give me; please do for me

Mahāraurava; The Hell of Great Wailing; The Great Screaming Hell; the fifth of eight hot hells in Buddhism

person with a bounty on their head

Caribbean

power strip; power board

to be square-jawed

jawbone; mandible

gas collecting bottle; gas collection bottle

modern disease; disease of our time