VOCABULARY VISUALS & THINGS TO KNOW THE MIDWIFE’S APPRENTICE
CHAPTER 1-3 STYLES OF DRESS WIMPLE HEEDLESS BALIFF CHRISTENED TAUNTING MIDWIFE APPRENTICE DUNG HEAP PLOUGHING LADY DAY FLEABANE CLODPOLE HAGGLING
STYLES OF DRESS
WIMPLE A cloth worn over the head and around the neck and chin by women in past times and by some nuns today.
HEEDLESS Not paying careful attention.
BALIFF An officer in a court of law who helps the judge control the people in the courtroom.
CHRISTENED give to (someone or something) a name that reflects a notable quality or characteristic. Our main character will be christened by another name when she finds her place in the world.
TAUNTING To say insulting things to (someone) in order to make that person angry.
MIDWIFE A woman who helps another woman when she is giving birth to a child.
APPRENTICE A person who works for another in order to learn a trade.
DUNG HEAP
PLOUGHING
LADY DAY In England, Lady Day was New Year's Day between 1155 and 1752, when 1 January was declared to be the official the start of the year. Lady Day was a traditional day on which year-long contracts between landowners and tenant farmers would begin and end in England and nearby lands (although there were regional variations). Farmers' time of "entry" into new farms and onto new fields was often this day.[3][4] As a result, farming families who were changing farms would travel from the old farm to the new one on Lady Day
FLEABANE
CLODPOLE
HAGGLING