Vocabulary

drawing back; stepping back; retreating

vegetables grown outdoors

Law for Stabilization of Supply, Demand and Prices of Staple Food

Law for Stabilization of Supply, Demand and Prices of Staple Food

limited edition sale; limited sale

pasturing (e.g. cattle); turning loose (to graze)

foreshock

Indian working abroad; overseas Indian

raised floor storehouse; granary built on stilts

raised floor storehouse; granary built on stilts

raised-floor architecture; stilt architecture

art works, traditional artifacts and antiques; artistic handicrafts; decorative art

replotting; land substitution

land replotting plan; replotting plan

Land Improvement Act

allocation of replotted land; government acquisition of land by substitution or compensation

reallocating private land to public use (e.g. parks, roads); reduction in the amount of private land following a land reallocation; reducing the area of private land to reallocate it to public uses

major disaster (that necessitates economic support to its victims); serious disaster; catastrophe

direct link (between web pages)

trepanation; trephination; trepanning; trephining

paying no heed to; not caring about; taking no notice of

along a wall

you (plural); all of you

to come surging (waves, enemy troops, etc.)

vegetables grown in a greenhouse

parading of portable shrines and floats at Shinto festivals

horse chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum); conker tree

American chestnut (Castanea dentata)

Chinese chestnut (Castanea mollissima)

chestnut blight; chestnut canker

Dasein; philosophical concept introduced by Heidegger

reefing a sail; bringing in a sail

crocodile clip; alligator clip

board game

straightforward approach; playing it straight; fair deal

relatively cheap; relatively inexpensive; on the cheap side; lowish (price)

sugar craft; sugarcraft

writing brush and paper; pen and paper

to dust; to remove dust

spaghetti squash (group of cultivars of Cucurbita pepo)