An open receptacle for carrying mortar, bricks, stones, or coal.

The cylindrical shaft running through the center of a wheel, upon which it pivots.

Shallow

Overturned

Storehouse

A tool like a pickax, with a blade at right angles to the handle.

Some subsequent editions misread this word as the intransitive verb "to work," printing the line as "I set my self to enlarge my Cave, and work farther into the Earth." However, the first edition treats it as a noun.

Crowbars

Economized or eked out, so they would last

Catholic

240 lb.

Had the explosive gunpowder caught fire from the lightning, Crusoe would ironically not have survived the explosion to have suffered harm at the hands of man or beast.

Radius

The cross-beams attached at right angles to the masts, from which the various sails hang

A large rope used in warping or mooring a ship

A large cask, or a quantity sufficient to fill a hogshead

Here not referring exclusively to an arsenal of weaponry, but more generally to Crusoe's store of provisions.

Eager

Crowbars

A stone on which to sharpen stone tools

A container for gunpowder, made from an ox or buffalo horn.

A kind of liqueur

Medicinal concoctions, often consisting of brandy or whiskey mixed with various spices.

Master of the ship

Ingenuity and determination (archaic usage)

The forward part of a ship below the main deck, usually the crew's living quarters.

One eighth of a mile, or 220 yards.

did not comprise a single pair

Approximately three and a half miles

Death blow

Towards the rear of the boat

In such a position that the land intercepts the wind, so that it does not buffet the boat.

"The wild sea"

The hull probably bashed in

Feverish delirium prevalent in the tropics.

lacking

British pounds are also referred to as pounds sterling.

A gold or silver trade coin, formerly current in most European countries.

Eighty Spanish dollars ("Pieces of eight" were so called because one was worth eight Spanish reales.)

Down to the smallest detail; to the highest degree

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"Bore" refers to the interior of the barrel of a gun, and the diameter of the bore determines the calibre. Crusoe's gun, then, is musket calibre.

Bullets

A small portion of a drink; a swig or sip.

If any of his Master's men had tried to follow him, he was by now so far away that they would have given up.

Aimed

Guns

Crotch

A wading bird of mottled brown color with a long, slender beak. [Insert picture of a curlew here.]

Shifted from one side of the vessel to the other when running before the wind.

Moor

Treatment I experienced there

The battery of cannon located on the side of the ship; cannon fire.

The Equator

Feverish delirium

Three hundred British pounds.

5 lb, 9 oz.

Quantity of capital or valuables

Forty pounds

Person with whom one regularly takes meals.

Common sailor

If the boat was crushed or damaged while running aground, he would reimburse their master.

Coal barges.

(Shinagel 12; footnote 6)

Senior crew member.

At the mercy of all risks/dangers.

The lower deck of a ship, just below the main deck and above the ballast; lower classes of passengers often purchased cheaper tickets to travel in this part of the ship.

A very large, heavy spare anchor stored in the waist of the ship, used in emergencies.

Come loose.

With the bow (the foremost part of the hull) in the water.

Remained anchored; floated stationary.

Equipment used to anchor a ship.

Having grown accustomed to something unpleasant.

Here merely the general action of fleeing, with no associations of secretive marriage.

Propose.

(Shinagel 8, footnote 6)

Relating to manual labor.

(Shinagel 6, footnote 2)

Heatedly, vehemently; as opposed to affectionately.

My intended purpose; but also with a possible foreshadowing of the way that the design of fate or Providence will play a role in Crusoe's life.

That such books as this will be read quickly, so that the truth of the narrative has no bearing on its value as entertainment or instruction.

(See Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe Ed. Michael Shinagel. (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1978), p. 3, footnote 1)

Abbreviation for Lat. videlicet, meaning here "namely."

The picture doesn't show the round central 'gunrest' that Joyce implies, though the outer ring might more accurately have been called by that term.

I was wondering if there was a connection between the second word in төмөр зам meaning railway and road. Now I find the same morpheme in the word for silk road (title of this webpage). Cool.

to prevent something from happening