From: Year of Wonder, by Geraldine Brooks

Sam's world was a dark, damp maze of rakes and scrins thirty feet under ground.

(Sam's occupation was a miner)

I can't help thinking that maybe Year of Wonder is just too hard a book to try reading!

i found this with the help of Our Friend Google:

Generally the mineralisation history of these deposits is complex, with successive phases breaking up and re-cementing the existing minerals to produce a brecciated ore body. Locally the fissure fill deposits are known as Rakes and Scrins, with Rakes occurring in large fissures, and Scrins filling smaller cavities and limestone joints.

actually, the meaning of most of the words are understandable, it is just the words themselves that are new..

that is why i am including a sentance from the book, and not just the word..what is interesting about the book, is that there are so many words that are new to me!

i have looked up these words, i know there meaning specifically now, not just generally, i am just sharing them. with the emerald isle WAP (WordAPalozza) going on, i thought posting might be 'slow' and thought it would be fun to add some of the words i came across just this past week!

And thank you very much for the interest you have provided! I've made some fascinating excursions.

of troy - sorry if it came across like I was trying to tell you the meaning - I had no idea what the word was so looked it up, and thought I'd post that in for others' edification! And to me, it really goes sound like too hard a book to read I get a bit lazy sometimes.

Dear of troy: The posts you have made about the words in the book you are reading are to me the very best type of post. I very much wish to see many more such posts. I wish many members would make posts like these.