babbitt a soft white metal of tin, lead, copper, and antimony in various proportions, used to reduce friction as in bearings.
bandanna a large, colored handkerchief, usually with a figure or pattern.
barbarians people regarded as primitive, savage, and so on.
belligerently in a hostile or quarrelsome manner.
boil an inflamed, painful, pus-filled swelling on the skin, caused by localized infection.
bolls the roundish seed pods of a plant, especially of cotton or flax.
Bolshevicky here refers a member of the Bolshevik party, a majority faction (Bolsheviki) of the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party, which formed the Communist Party after seizing power in the 1917 Revolution.
boxcars fully enclosed railroad freight cars.
carrying charges the costs associated with property ownership, as taxes, upkeep, and so on.
cat slang for Caterpillar: trademark for a tractor equipped on each side with a continuous roller belt over cogged wheels, for moving over rough or muddy ground.
cat-walk a narrow, elevated walk or platform, as one along the edge of a bridge or over the engine room of a ship.
chambray a smooth fabric of cotton, made by weaving white or unbleached threads across a colored warp: used for dresses, shirts, and so on.
Cherokee a member of a North American Indian people formerly inhabiting a large area of the south Allegheny Mountains, now in Oklahoma and North Carolina.
clout power or influence.
con-rod bearing a reciprocating rod connecting two or more moving parts of a machine, as the crankshaft and a piston of an automobile.
cord any force acting as a tie or bond.
coroner a public officer whose chief duty is to determine the causes of any deaths not obviously due to natural causes.
corrugated iron sheet iron or steel with parallel grooves and ridges to give it added strength in construction.
cottonwood a rapidly growing lowland tree.
coupe a closed, two-door automobile.
Cracker Jack trademark for a confection of sweet, glazed popcorn and peanuts.
crags steep, rugged rocks that rise above others or project from a rock mass.
croppers sharecroppers.
croquet an outdoor game in which the players use mallets to drive a wooden ball through a series of hoops placed in the ground.
cultivators implements or machines for loosening the earth and destroying weeds around growing plants.
culvert a pipe-like construction of stone, concrete, or metal, that passes under a road, railroad track, footpath, or through an embankment.
cynically in a manner that indicates a belief that people are motivated in all their actions only by selfishness.
