Summary, Analysis, and Original Text by Scene

Act II: Scene 2

inch-meal inch by inch. Here, Caliban hopes for Prospero's fall.

bombard a large leather container meant to hold liquor.

swabber the sailor who washes the ship and keeps the decks clean.

chaps jaws. Stefano is telling Caliban to open his jaws and drink more.

long spoon alluding to an old proverb that a man must have a very long spoon to eat with the devil. Stefano thinks that Trinculo is a ghost.

moon-calf [Obs.] a monstrosity; a misshapen creature born under the moon's influence.

Scamels The meaning is uncertain but thought to be either shellfish or rock-inhabiting birds.

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