porkers hogs, especially young ones, fattened for use as food.
Windsor chair a style of wooden chair, esp. popular in eighteenth-century England and America, with spreading legs, a back of spindles, and usually a saddle seat.
Midsummer's Eve the night before the summer solstice, about June 21.
News of the World a popular periodical.
carpet bag an old-fashioned type of traveling bag, made of carpeting.
spinney a small wood; copse.
Brussels carpet a patterned carpeting made of small loops of colored woolen yarn in a linen warp.
Queen Victoria 1819–1901; queen of Great Britain & Ireland (1837–1901): empress of India (1876–1901): granddaughter of George III.
