dog-irons iron braces used to hold firewood.
Pilgrim's Progress a religious allegory by John Bunyan (1678).
mud-cat a catfish.
liberty-pole a tall flagstaff planted in the ground.
bowie a steel knife about fifteen inches long, with a single edge, usually carried in a sheath.
nip and tuck so close that the outcome is uncertain.
predestination the theological doctrine that God foreordained everything that would happen.
foreordination predestination.
puncheon floor floor made of a heavy, broad piece of roughly dressed timber with one side hewed flat.
