pass her air to burp.
paterollers patrollers or slave-catchers.
people who die bad don't stay in the ground a belief that victims of murder or wrongful death wander the earth as ghosts.
pickaninnies black children. The term, derived from Spanish or Portuguese, evolved into a racial slur meant to denigrate or dehumanize.
pike a highway.
pitched ceiling an angled ceiling with windows opening on the sky.
pouch of tobacco . . . smoking paper the materials needed for handrolling cigarettes.
press an upright closet in which clothes or other articles are kept.
pride goeth before a fall a common compression of Proverbs 16:18, "Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall."
prima donna a temperamental, vain, or arrogant person.
privy a toilet; esp., an outhouse.
published a newspaper Sequoyah's Cherokee Phoenix, founded in 1828.
Pulaski County, Kentucky a county in south central Kentucky.
raised bread yeast bread.
rendered fat fat from cooked pork, skimmed off and hardened into lard.
Republicans political movement led by Abraham Lincoln from third-party status to frontrunner.
rind a piece of pork skin, traditional southern style seasoning for green beans.
rue any of a genus of strong-scented shrubs of the rue family, esp. an herb with yellow flowers and bitter-tasting leaves formerly used in medicine; symbolizes regret.
