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  1. thingummy
    something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known
    'It's all over, Mrs. Thingummy!' said the surgeon at last.
  2. oakum
    loose hemp or jute fiber obtained by unravelling old ropes
    'So you'll begin to pick oakum to-morrow morning at six o'clock,' added the surly one in the white waistcoat.
  3. parish
    a local church community
    For a long time after it was ushered into this world of sorrow and trouble, by the parish surgeon, it remained a matter of considerable doubt whether the child would survive to bear any name at all; in which case it is somewhat more than probable that these memoirs would never have appeared; or, if they had, that being comprised within a couple of pages, they would have possessed the inestimable merit of being the most concise and faithful specimen of biography, extant in the literatu...
  4. pauper
    a person who is very poor
    There being nobody by, however, but a pauper old woman, who was rendered rather misty by an unwonted allowance of beer; and a parish surgeon who did such matters by contract; Oliver and Nature fought out the point between them.
  5. halfpenny
    an English coin worth half a penny
    Upon this, the parish authorities magnanimously and humanely resolved, that Oliver should be 'farmed,' or, in other words, that he should be dispatched to a branch-workhouse some three miles off, where twenty or thirty other juvenile offenders against the poor-laws, rolled about the floor all day, without the inconvenience of too much food or too much clothing, under the parental superintendence of an elderly female, who received the culprits at and for the consideration of sevenpence-hal...
Created on 三月 10, 2010

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