attorney
lawyer
bank
slope of land adjoining a body of water
carpetbagger
derogatory term for northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War to make a profit from Reconstruction
chignon
a roll of hair worn at the back of the neck
churn
stir, as in making butter
clapboard
a structure made of slats of varying thicknesses
emaciated
extremely thin
ember
the coal or ash of a dying fire
glade
open space in a forest
gravelly
low and scratchy
gully
a deep ditch or channel
indignant
righteously angered
lynching
a hanging executed by a mob, usually racially motivated
mercantile
country store
molding dish
apparatus that shapes the finished butter
ransack
plunder, pillage
snaggle-toothed
full of teeth that are broken or misaligned
switch
whip
welts
marks left over from a beating
Yankee
Civil War term for a person from the North
