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sleeveless
Pronounced: SLEEV-luhs (alt: SLEEV-lis), adj Notes: Besides the obvious, this had a meaning I didn’t know Yesterday’s word The word caravansary means First usage Our word came into English in the late 1500s Background / Comments Our word came from the Middle East, where in ancient times, quadrangular inns allowed caravans of camels to stay…
caravansary
Pronounced: ker-uh-VAN(T)-suh-ree, noun Notes: A new word to me Yesterday’s word The word hackle, as a verb, means “to comb flax, hemp, or other fibers with a hackle”. As a noun, it means: First usage Our word came into English around 900 Background / Comments I knew the first two noun definitions, but the third…
hackle
Pronounced: HACK-uhl, noun/verb Notes: I didn’t know one of the noun meanings, nor did I know the verb meaning Yesterday’s word The word saccade means “a small rapid jerky movement of the eye especially as it jumps from fixation on one point to another (as in reading)” First usage Well, our word with the above…
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