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The Crockett Almanacks choose

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[US] D. Crockett in Meine Crockett Almanacks (1955) 3: I will show ’em how to [...] take a blizzard at a bear.
at blizzard, n.1
[US] D. Crockett in Meine Crockett Almanacks (1955) 6: My next flame was a pretty little girl that I had known when quite young.
at flame, n.
[US] D. Crockett in Meine Crockett Almanacks (1955) 5: I took French leave of him.
at French leave, n.
[US] D. Crockett in Meine Crockett Almanacks (1955) 38: I determined on trying to what virtue there was – not in stones, like the ‘old man with the young sauce-box,’ – but in a much more potent article, whiskey.
at saucebox, n.
[US] D. Crockett in Meine Crockett Almanacks (1955) 7: She was at a tea-squall at one of the neighbors.
at tea squall (n.) under tea, n.
[US] D. Crockett in Meine Crockett Almanacks (1955) 49: What should he see but his landlady with a big knotted club in her hand batterfanging a dozen rattle snakes.
at batter-fang, v.
[US] D. Crockett in Meine Crockett Almanacks (1955) 52: I met a big fellow on the Levee at New Orleans, who [...] begun blackguarding me about my countrymen, for he didn’t belong to Kentucky himself.
at blackguard, v.
[US] D. Crockett in Meine Crockett Almanacks (1955) 45: The corn was heaped up into a sort of hillock close to the granary, on which the young Ohioians and ‘Buckeys’ (the lasses of Ohio are all called ‘Buckeys’) seated themselves. [...] The old folks said the lads were wide awake – and the ‘buckeyes’ said there was no being up to the plaguey Irish ‘no how’.
at buckeye, n.1
[US] D. Crockett in Meine Crockett Almanacks (1955) 54: The way his heart bobbed up and down was a caution.
at caution, n.
[US] D. Crockett in Meine Crockett Almanacks (1955) 52: I jumped up and snapped my fingers in his face, and telled him that I didn’t care the fag end of a johnny cake for him.
at fag end, n.
[US] D. Crockett in Meine Crockett Almanacks (1955) 47: I then cut my line, and rose to the surface pretty well fagged out.
at fagged (out), adj.
[US] D. Crockett in Meine Crockett Almanacks (1955) 76: Wash the whole down with a quart of buttermilk, and you will shortly have a touch of the real thing.
at real thing, the, n.
[US] D. Crockett in Meine Crockett Almanacks (1955) 54: Betsey herself come out all rigged up in her best bib and tucker.
at rig, v.1
[US] D. Crockett in Meine Crockett Almanacks (1955) 76: He swore he was a regular snorter, half-horse, half-alligator.
at snorter, n.2
[US] D. Crockett in Meine Crockett Almanacks (1955) 51: He [...] said we was as ignorant as savages. We looked rather striped at this, for every one in our parts hated the savages as we did pison.
at stripe, v.
[US] D. Crockett in Meine Crockett Almanacks (1955) 95: Of all the rivers on this airth, the Mississippi beats all holler.
at beat all (v.) under beat, v.
[US] D. Crockett in Meine Crockett Almanacks (1955) 93: Well, Capting, do you ate us, or do we ate ourselves? ‘Eat yourselves, to be sure.’.
at eat, v.
[US] D. Crockett in Meine Crockett Almanacks (1955) 108: A coat of strong blue cloth of the Jehu cut, with white bone buttons of the Jehu size.
at jehu, n.
[US] D. Crockett Almanack in Meine Crockett Almanacks (1955) 107: I can take the rag off – frighten the old folks – astonish the natives – and beat the Dutch all to smash.
at take the rag off the bush (v.) under rag, n.1
[US] D. Crockett in Meine Crockett Almanacks (1955) 92: Said I, stranger you are a damn red eel.
at red eel (n.) under red, adj.
[US] D. Crockett in Meine Crockett Almanacks (1955) 81: I was beaten, for they made choice of a man with ‘a timber toe.’.
at timber-toe, n.
[US] D. Crockett in Meine Crockett Almanacks (1955) 131: I instantly put a ball through him near the heart.
at ball, n.1
[US] D. Crockett in Meine Crockett Almanacks (1955) 121: I went chewallop into the water.
at chewallop, adv.
[US] D. Crockett in Meine Crockett Almanacks (1955) 125: Says I, give us none of your chin music.
at chin music, n.
[US] D. Crockett in Meine Crockett Almanacks (1955) 126: Set your kickers on land, and I’ll give you a severe licking.
at kicker, n.1
[US] D. Crockett in Meine Crockett Almanacks (1955) 125: I hit him a crack over his knob with my big steering oar.
at knob, n.
[US] D. Crockett in Meine Crockett Almanacks (1955) 120: Surrender, stranger, or I may perforate ye.
at perforate, v.
[US] D. Crockett in Meine Crockett Almanacks (1955) 133: He was proper mad, I tell you.
at proper, adv.
[US] D. Crockett in Meine Crockett Almanacks (1955) 125: He had been ramsquaddled with whiskey for a fortnight.
at ramsquaddle, v.
[US] D. Crockett in Meine Crockett Almanacks (1955) 107: I’ve soaked my head and shoulders in Salt River, so much that I’m always corned.
at row up Salt River (v.) under Salt River, n.
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