Judith Wright: Poetry

Judith Wright: Poetry Glossary

Foretold

In the case of an event, predicted a long time before it happened

Nonchalant

Casual, unaffected

Tethers

Ties something to something else

Winces

Flinches

Mustering

Getting up the nerve or energy to do something

Luny

Lunatic

Conjurer's

Magician's

Medlar

Small deciduous Eurasian tree (Mespilus germanica) of the rose family whose fruit resembles a crab apple and is used in preserves

Lichen

Moss

Tableland

An elevated plateau

Alpenstock

A staff

Floe

A floating ice chunk

Paddocks

Enclosures, such as fields

Mattocks

Digging tools that look like axes

Hindered

Got in the way of

Petticoats

Underskirts worn by women

Crabapple

Any of various wild or cultivated trees (genus Malus) that are cultivars or relatives of the cultivated apple and that produce small sour fruit

Metho

Methamphetamine

Stroll

Walk leisurely

Yarns

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