ridge here, a chain of hills.
wing-back chair a high-backed chair from which enclosing side pieces are attached.
normal school a school that trains teachers for the elementary grades.
Quakers the Society of Friends, a religious denomination. Quakers were instrumental in helping runaway slaves reach freedom in the North.
okra a pod-shaped vegetable, commonly grown in the South.
fluted plates plates whose edges are grooved, like the outer crust of a pie.
stove eye slang for a stove's opening.
