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1. What word for somebody who works in a stable and cares for horses, derives from 'hosteller',a word for somebody who works in a 'hostelry' where guests and their horses are taken care of ?
2. What type of mollusc has a name that literally means 'small mouse'?
3. What present-day name of a dancing-style derives from 'dancing like the Moors in Spain' or 'Moriscos' dancing'?
4. What military term for foot soldiers originally meant 'boy soldiers'?
5. Which of these words derives from the gypsy word for a male gypsy:'rom' ?
6. What fish resembling an eel and attaching itself to stones by means of its sucker mouth ,has a name that literally means 'licker' (from Latin lambere) 'of stone' (Latin petra)?
7. What Highland-style woollen cap ,rises to a point in front ,usually has ribbons hanging behind it and got its name from a village near Inverness?
8. Where did the Scots Grey get their name from ?
9. What's the name for the short raised deck in the bow of some ships that originally was meant as a kind of castle-like structure from which to command the enemy's decks?
10. What English word originally meant a storehouse, especially a storehouse for military provisons, then became the term for a chamber for holding cartridges to be fed into the breech of a gun, and finally developed into a term for 'periodical reading matter'?
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