A tribulation is a great affliction or oppression, or the cause of that. The occupants of many abbeys suffered tribulations during the reformation ordered by Henry VIII.
It’s a good thing I looked it up before using it anywhere as I’d always imagined it meant a minor source of annoyance. Perhaps I was associating it with trivial?
Did you know what the word meant?
To rootle is to dig with a snout, to poke about or search. Whilst you’re doing it you’re rootling and afterwards you’ll have rootled.
Somewhere I have a photo of pigs rootling, but when I rootled through my hard drive I got distracted, so here are some steps instead. Do you know where they are? Have you climbed them?
What were you looking for last time you rootled – and did you find it?
Estimation is the process or result of making an estimate, an opinion or judgement of worth, or an old term for esteem.
By my estimation it’s time for another plug for my books. You’d all go up in my estimation if you bought one 😉 (perhaps one of these which are currently reduced to 99p / 99c) Same applies if you read it on Kindle Unlimited, or borrow it from the library …
The word keep has a variety of meanings.
To keep is to retain or preserve – I keep food fresh by keeping it in the fridge. Or it can mean detain or prevent – Don’t let reading this blog keep you from writing. Or to guard or protect – keep yourself safe on the internet by keeping your passwords secret. It’s also part of a castle!
There are other uses for the word, but I’m not going to keep on typing as that’s kept me away from my stories long enough. Maybe some of you would like to keep on with the definitions or examples?
Tantamount, which is almost always followed by ‘to’ means equivalent.
Clicking on my blog is tantamount to agreeing to see more of my photos!
Staffage is the visual arts equivalent of minor characters in a novel. They’re animals or people in the background. Part of the scene, but not the subject.
As I can’t draw, I’m attempting to illustrate this through photos of a crow. In one he’s the central character, the subject – in the other he’s really just staffage. See what I mean?
A hobbledehoy is a clumsy or awkward youth. I was one of them a loooong time ago, though I don’t recall being referred to as such.
Is there a term for a similar adult? If so, that’ll be me now.
To misremember is to remember incorrectly or imperfectly, or to forget. I misremember if I’ve shown you these pictures before …
Go on, guess what a yegg is …
It’s a travelling burglar or safe breaker. Didn’t get it, did you?
We do a lot of travelling, but just about the only thing I take is photos. I like to think I do that with flare 😉
A flintlock is an old type of gun which requires the spark from a flint to fire. It can also mean the device used to produce that spark.
There were flintlock rifles as well as much larger guns which could fire shots weighing up to 32 lb on board HMS Victory during the Battle of Trafalgar.
I didn’t get to keep any description of gun (nor that hat, sadly) but I do have the jacket and a piece of flint just like those which would have been used in a flintlock.