Huckleberry Finn Vocab 8-16
Across
- 3. a printed cotton cloth
- 5. personal belongings or baggage
- 6. shakes or nervous fidgets
- 10. hanged by a mob
- 11. a low, tree-covered sandbar or island in a river
- 13. a place where wood for sale is stored; on a riverbank, a storage area for the wood used as fuel in steamboats
- 14. trapped or cornered up a tree
- 16. money
- 18. toward the rear of the ship
- 20. to move around vigorously; to steal, especially cattle
Down
- 1. to fool or decieve
- 2. energy or spirit
- 4. larboard; the left-hand side of a ship, looking forward
- 7. a long rope fastened to a raft for pulling or towing it
- 8. the rear of a ship
- 9. over there
- 12. one who advocated the abolition of slavery and, sometimes, helped to free slaves
- 13. a flat-bottomed boat used to carry wood
- 15. leather flaps fastened alongside a horses eyes so that the horse can only see straight ahead
- 17. leaned or tilted to one's side
- 19. tallow; animal fat used to make soap and candles