A quacksalver:
a. quicksand
b. a kind of duck
c. useless treatments given
Quacksalver: c -What are useless treatments? -
[What we would call a "quack" now.]
100
Strigil
a. string
b. a cleaning tool
c. musical instrument
Strigil: b -What is a cleaning tool to scrape dirt and perspiration from an athlete's body after exercise? -
100
Sandesman [messenger]:
a. sends children to sleep
b. sends snowplows out to roadways
c. sends someone to clean up the seashore area
Sandesman: a. -Who is someone who helps lull children to sleep?
100
Isabelline:
a. type of song sung by sailors
b. gray-yellow color
c. ringing of a bell
Isabelline - b. What is an adjective to indicate a gray-yellow color?
100
Laverock is:
a. birds caught and used in dinners
b. a volcano rock
c. small animals living near volcanoes
Laverock: a. What are birds caught and used in dinners?
200
Ordal is:
a. trial and judgment
b. a bird
c. a military order
What is an ordal? - a. judgment
200
"Gardyloo!"
a. 'Look out for the water!'
b. 'Ahoy, I see land!'
c. 'Do not walk on the grass!'
What is Gardyloo? - a. 'Look out for the water!' - Warning given before someone emptied their bucket of wastewater from an upstairs window into the street below.
200
Galligaskin is baggy trousers:
a. worn by a child
b. worn by sailors
c. worn by women
What is galligaskin? - b. baggy trousers worn by sailors
200
Blash:
a. sound of heavy rain and wind
b. to hit something with a rock
c. a sunny day
Blash: a-What is the word [onomatopoeia] that makes the sound of a downpour rain and gusty wind?
200
Smell-Feaste:
a. good-smelling food
b. a buffet dinner
c. someone coming to dinner, uninvited
Smell-Feaste: c - What is someone who comes to dinner, uninvited?
300
Angnaegl is a:
a. headache
b. corn on the foot
c. earache
What is Angnaegl? - - b. corn on the foot
300
Gleed is:
a. fire
b. money
c. ice
What is gleed? - a. fire~a ember or glowing coal
300
Tonsor is a:
a. person with an alto singing voice
b. bullfighter
c. barber or shaver
What is a tonsor? - c. hairdresser or barber
300
Toonioperty:
a. opportunity
b. musical ability
c. hum a tune
What is toonioperty? - a. opportunity
300
Toad-Eater is a
a. person who would pretend to eat a toad
b. person who captured toads for use in cooking
c. person who used toads in medicines
What is a toad-eater? - a. Person who would pretend to eat a toad [which was considered poisonous.] Used by charlatans selling 'miracle' remedies.
400
Ezel is
a. frame to hold a painting
b. a milkstool
c. a vehicle
What is an ezel? - a. - frame to hold a painting
400
Cachpule is the sport of:
a. swimming
b. tennis
c. baseball
What is cachpule? - b. tennis
400
Scatches:
a. cloth
b. stilts
c. hats
What are scatches? - b. stilts
400
Scaramouch is a
a. a lazy coward
b. a frightening or awful thing
c. a type of clothing worn like a scarf
What is a scaramouch? - a. lazy coward
400
Salvor is a servant's job to:
a. polish the king's silver & gold
b. make the king's dinner
c. taste a king's food
What is salvor? - c. taste the king's food
500
Fixfax is a:
a. type of communication
b. type of punishment
c. type of travel method
What is a fixfax: - b. type of punishment [put in stocks for others to laugh at you]
500
Gossomer means 'goose summer' or:
a. end of summer
b. Indian summer
c. summer vacation
What is Gossomer? - b. unseasonably warm weather in autumn, which in North America called, Indian summer
500
Bowgett is:
a. to bow to a king/queen
b. a set of bows and arrows
c. a small leather-bag for money
What is a bowgett? - c. - a small leather bag for money
500
Scrynne is a:
a. wooden chest containing writing materials and other valuables
b. loud screaming
c. early type of window screen
What is a scrynne? - a. wooden chest containing writing materials and other valuables
500
Monks and friars:
a. errors in printed books
b. religious newspapers
c. cooking ideas
What is a monk and friar? - a. errors in printed books [monks= smudged letters; friars=letters appearing too light to be read]