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Word: pieplant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cure venison. She also describes cheese making, sod breaking, sugaring off, housebuilding (log, sod and frame), threshing, ice cutting and a hundred other practical matters. She offers assorted facts on such subjects as homestead law, horse breaking and how to manage a hoop skirt. The odd word may mystify (pieplant, claim shack, prove out, picket pin, beholden, boughten), but the prose is straightforward enough for Hemingway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Little Houses | 3/15/1971 | See Source »

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