GLOSSARY
- Ad libitum
- Latin: "As you wish."
- Batrachian
- Vertebrate amphibians without tails, such as frogs and toads.
- Clinker-built
- A construction method for wooden canoes that overlaps each board over the one below.
- Dolce far niente
- Italian: "It's sweet doing nothing."
- Esox
- Pike.
- Fore peak
- The most forward point of the bow.
- Gallinaceous
- Heavy-bodied ground-feeding domestic or game birds; turkey, grouse, quail, pheasant, chickens.
- Garboards
- The streaks (planks) on each side next to and joining the keel.
- Gill
- Four ounces.
- Johnnycake
- Unleavened cornmeal bread, usually shaped into a flat cake and baked or fried.
- Keelson
- A timber or plank inside the canoe fastened to the keel and resting on it above the junction of the planking and the keel.
- Lapstreak
- Overlapping planks, similar to clinker-built. However, the overlapping section is planed to a uniform thickness.
- Logy
- Slow to react.
- Lubberly
- Clumsy and unskilled.
- Mast
- The fruit of the oak or beech; acorns.
- Micropterus
- Black bass.
- Micropterus dolomieu
- Small-mouthed bass.
- Moggin'
- Moving away from; moving.
- Moquims
- A small, red mite, whose bite causes an intense itch.
- O.W.
- Old Woodsman.
- Pinions
- The outer rear edge of the wing of a bird, containing the primary feathers.
- Qui vive
- On the alert. Latin: "Who goes there?"
- Rhubarb regulars
- Rhubarb root is used in traditional Chinese medicine as a laxative.
- Salmo fontinalis
- Brook trout.
- Sancudos
- A type of mosquito.
- Shack
- Nuts or acorns that have fallen to the ground.
- Short blue
- In the fall, the hair of a deer hide is short and turns blue in color.
- Sine qua non
- Latin: Essential, indispensable.
- Sticking salve
- Make from various ingredients (pitch, rosin, petroleum jelly, lard, etc.) and including herbs. Used as a healing agent on wounds.
- Streak
- A single plank.