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Actions: Work Sharpening

Parent Term

  • Work

Sibling Terms

  • Accident
  • Architect
  • Banking
  • Barbering
  • Blacksmith
  • Boot-black / Shoe shine
  • Building structure
  • Carpenter
  • Chopping wood
  • Churning butter
  • Construction
  • Dismissal
  • Dismissing from work
  • Doctor / medical care
  • Driving
  • Factory
  • Farming
  • Fireman
  • For room and board
  • Gardening
  • Getting water
  • Glassblowing
  • Government
  • Horse training
  • Hotel employee
  • House painter
  • Janitor
  • Jeweler
  • Landscaping
  • Law enforcement
  • Lawyering
  • Leaving work
  • Livery stable
  • Losing job
  • Maritime / Marine
  • Mechanic
  • Milling
  • Miners / mining
  • Missing work
  • Night watchman
  • Office
  • Painting|Drawing
  • Performance
  • Photography
  • Postal worker
  • Prosecuting
  • Quitting job
  • Railroad workers
  • Restauranteer
  • Sawmilling
  • Sowing
  • Store clerk
  • Tailor
  • Teaching
  • To pay for education
  • Traveling salesman
  • Waiter
  • Waitress
  • Washing clothes
  • Weaving
  • Yard work

Tagged Events

Flags in the Dust, 47 (Event)
Actions: Verbal›Command | Work›Gardening | Work›Sharpening
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Hat | Gender›Labor | Labor›Farming | Race›Black stereotype | War›Return from war
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Hoe
Relationships: Hierarchical›Master-servant | Interracial›White-black
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
The Town, 68 (Event)
Environment: Public›Blacksmith
Actions: Work›Sharpening
Cultural Issues: Race›Black property ownership
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses
Relationships: Friendship›Interracial
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait