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smarted:smarting - smart: a kind of pain such as that caused by a wound or a burn or a sorehovel: small crude shelter used as a dwellingpewter:any of various alloys of tin with small amounts of other metals (especially lead)sycamore:variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore treesham:fake: something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to betethered:confined or restricted with or as if with a rope or chainhearth:fireplace: an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire can be built; "the fireplace was so large you could walk inside it"; "he laid a fire in the hearth and lit it"; "the hearth was black with the charcoal of many fires"squeamish:dainty: excessively fastidious and easily disgusted; "too nice about his food to take to camp cooking"; "so squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow"