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sheltered

to be sheltered (from wind or rain)

to spread out the hot stones in a native oven preparatory to putting the food on them

two (2)

wire

wireless telegraphy, wireless radio

to wire

wharf, pier

wife

wine

two score, forty (40), coconuts or yams

two hundred (200)

watch, clock, or chronometer

whisky

waistcoat, vest

expressing surprise

Wales

Wesleyan, Methodist

(adj/n) west

to move; to impel, to move or stir (to action, or to change one's course of action)

pith; central thick root (of

navel cord

midst (as in their 'midst')

to go or come early in the morning

to have pleurisy or a pain that feels like pleurisy

(v0 to have continuous or intermittent pleuritic pains

to call, to call out, or call out to; to call (to a work); to call or name

to announce by calling out loudly and publicly

to call by a wrong name

week

to call by a different or wrong name

week of prayer between the first and second Sundays in the new year (Meth.)

whip

to whip

wheat

widow, or widower

(adj/v) sticky, glutinous

bowstring

(adj/n) iron or steel

to procure (workers), to get people to come and work

to dive; (of a whale) to sound

to wash (the head); (often used in place of following)

to dive for, dive after

flame; luminosity

to burn, to be alight or catch alight; to give light, to shine, to be luminous (or phosphorescent)

seine (long fishing-net)

(adj/v) difficult to light properly or to cause to burn with a flame

(adj/v) catching alight or flaring up easily

to become a member of, or a convert to, a religion or religious organization

shoulder

to mope, to be dejected or spiritless

skin or shell which has been shed, slough

to shed its skin (as snakes do) or its shell (as crabs, etc. do)

to dip, to plunge into water or other liquid

to pull out, draw out ; to pick out, select (a person here and there from a large number)

to pull out, draw out (a tooth, a sword from its sheath)

to take shelter, to conceal oneself, take cover, get behind something for the sake of shelter or concealment; to be sheltered, out of sight, hidden

place where one takes cover or shelter, or place of concealment; shelter, refuge, hiding-place

(of house, place, people) to be crowded (more or less) and noisy

twenty (20)

sinew, tendon, muscle, or ligament

to pull together, to work together as one man

carrying or conveying bu boat, vehicle or horse; or goods (or load) so carried

to carry or convey by boat, vehicle or on horseback

yam-digging

to harvest yams, to dig up yams

yam-harvesting time

to dig up the annual yam crop

to glean or pick up yams or pieces of yam left after the crop has been harvested (or yams which have since grown of their own accord from such remnants)

to be well or thoroughly sheltered

neck, or throat

bite

to bite

in the habit of biting

to bite often or continuously