Quiz, from Vol. IV

1. rain dog (a) a man's short hairstyle
2. princeton (b) a nickname for an unimportant or out-of-the-way place
3. sailor's purse (c) a dense growth of dwarf oak
4. shinnery (d) a water faucet placed on the outside of a building
5. pinkie (e) a main-dish pie, frequently containing fish and rice
6. pirok (f) a trick, deception
7. railroad (g) a vacant lot or city block
8. shab (h) of ice: crumbling, disintegrating, becoming porous
9. Skunk's Misery (i) of bread or cake: heavy, dense, soggy
10. poison apple (j) to sneak away, slink off
11. ridy-bob (k) a rascal; critter, varmint
12. sad (l) an atmospheric phenomenon; a small arc of rainbow
13. sill cock (m) a tomato
14. sandy (n) a small sailing vessel with a sharp stern
15. prairie (o) to reprimand; criticize
16. scaper (p) a seesaw
17. read out

(q) a work party in which participants make new articles from old pieces of cloth

18. rag bee (r) to hurry; to deal with quickly
19. reina (s) a rockfish (Sebastes elongatus)
20. rotten (t) the egg case of a skate or shark

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