1. purse-seine — fishing net (usu. deployed by two boats) in shape of an enormous bag closed at the bottom by a line (the purse-line)
The first recorded purse-seine was used in 1826 to catch a staggering school of menhaden which was almost too huge for the fishermen to handle.
2. dunch — [golf] hit from sticky ground in which the ground is hit before the ball
After his pointed remarks about Rosemarie, I hooked my tee shot, and my second was a dunch that left me in danger of going six.
3. well-found — well-equipped, furnished with necessary supplies, etc.
It turned out that his ‘go bag’ was actually a well-found trailer full of camping and other stocks, ready for a weeks-long journey to the mountains or the desert, prepared for a fishing trip or hiding from the cops.
4. scotoma — partial loss of vision or blind spot
In those years most physicians were unaware of the temporary scintillating scotoma which often accompanies an attack of migraine.
5. peavy (also peavey) — stout tool with hook and pointed end used for manipulating logs
Butcher had a good crew on that drive, about a dozen men, and his peavies were fine pieces of equipment, practically new.
6. grass widow — wife whose husband is frequently absent or gone for a protracted time
The letters to Bessie reveal the concerns of her husband, an army drover who thought the war would last only a few months, and his worries that she would be unable to maintain the farm in the face of his absence and the privation engendered by the conflict, but she was more apt as a grass widow at husbanding the farm’s resources than her actual husband had been.
7. stroppy — [British] argumentative, easily annoyed
Percival could have been head boy were it not for the fact that he could get quite stroppy at times.
8. roach — small freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
Though some sportsmen have argued that fishing for roach is a true challenge, most fishermen consider them to be a nuisance.
9. ensample — [obsolete] example
So too must you be ensamples of our new, better way of life.
10. noddypoll — [archaic] simpleton, fool, blockhead
Perhaps I cannot ken your meaning, being but a poor noddypoll myself.
Bonus Vocabulary
(slang)
out of spoons — exhausted, lacking energy (based on so-called Spoon Theory positing that people (especially those with certain disabilities) have finite quanta of energy to accomplish mental or physical tasks)
No way I can join you for drinks—I’m all out of spoons today.