Author Archives: Donna Webb

Winter sport on the canal.

Sold at the Mustill Store. Probably cut from a nearby canal basin during the winter, stored in an ice house and sold during the rest of the year.

Pertaining to the movement pressure, or other physical properties of a liquid system. A machine or system operated by the weight, movement or pressure of liquid.

Canal slang for brothels.

(Equus caballus) A large, solid-hoofed, herbivorous mammal domesticated by man since a prehistoric period. Used as a beast of burden , or draft animal, or for riding. Sometimes used to pull canal boats. Were more … more →

(Lonicera cf. morrowi) A spring flowering, American shrub. It was popular in yards and gardens.