Furrows: a narrow groove made in the ground; especially by plow (channel, pathway)
Phonograph: any sound-reproducing machine using records in the form of cylinders or discs (victrola).
etch ins: to erode a design or message into something, usually with acid
John Rabbit: American rock keyboardist
Gasket: a compressible packing piece of paper, rubber slang: burst out in anger
Babbitt: a bearing or lining with Babbitt metal
Sullenly: showing irritation or ill humor by a gloomy silence or reserve
Shim: a thin slip or wedge of metal, wood, etc. to level out
Piston: a disk or cylinder part tightly fitting and moving within a cylinder, either to compress or move a fluid collected in the cylinder; a pump-like valve
Spool: anything round with other materials like thread
Figgers: ? ? ?
Acquaintanceship:a person with whom one has been in contact but who is not a close friend
Dispossessed:to take away possession of something, esp property; expel
Nebulous:lacking definite form, shape, or content; vague or amorphous
Shafter: tricking or cheating
Hoovervilles: a collection of huts and shacks; edge of city; housing the unemployed during the 1930s
Nondescript:lacking distinct or individual characteristics; having no outstanding features
Gunnysacking: when someone silently collects irritations and slights until "the last straw is placed on them" causing an overblown reaction
Sardonically:characterized by irony, mockery, or derision
Agrarian:of or relating to land or its cultivation or to systems of dividing landed property
Okie: a migrant worker from Oklahoma especially during the Great Depression
Destitute: lacking the means of subsistence; totally impoverished
Ginghams: a medium-weight balanced plain-woven fabric made from dyed cotton or cotton-blend yarn
Boxcar: a completely enclosed freight car
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