badger any of certain mammals of a family of burrowing carnivores of North America, Europe, and Asia, with a broad back, thick, short legs, and long claws on the forefeet.
Bohemia a former independent kingdom in central Europe (13th–15th centuries); part of Austria-Hungary until 1918 and then part of Czechoslovakia until 1993, when it was incorporated into the Czech Republic.
box-elder a medium-sized, fast-growing North American maple, with compound leaves.
catalpa any of a genus of hardy American and Asiatic trees of the bignonia family, with large, heart-shaped leaves, showy clusters of trumpet-shaped flowers, and slender beanlike pods
chaps leather trousers without a seat, worn over ordinary trousers by cowboys to protect their legs.
corral an enclosure for holding or capturing horses, cattle, or other animals; pen.
day-coaches railroad cars used for daytime travel only.
divide a ridge that divides two drainage areas; watershed.
draw a shallow gully or ravine, as one that water drains into or through.
dugout a shelter dug in the ground or in a hillside.
fire-break a strip of land cleared or plowed to stop the spread of fire, as in a forest or prairie.
ground-cherry bushes any of a genus of plants of the nightshade family, including the Chinese-lantern plant, having small tomatolike fruits completely enclosed by a papery calyx.
heavy work-horses horses used for working, as for pulling a plow.
kawn-tree Ántonia’s pronunciation of country.
Mormons members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (commonly called the Mormon Church), founded in the U.S. in 1830 by Joseph Smith; among its sacred books is the Book of Mormon, represented by Smith as his translation of an account of some ancient American peoples by a prophet among them named Mormon.
Prague capital of Bohemia (later of Czecholoslovakia, and now of the Czech Republic), on the Vltava River.
spurs a pair of pointed devices worn on the heels by the rider of a horse and used to urge the horse forward.
Tatinek a familiar Bohemian term meaning papa.
windmill a mill operated by the wind’s rotation of large, oblique sails or vanes radiating from a shaft; used as a source of power for grinding grain, pumping water, generating electricity, etc.
