... Incidentally, indolent Americans usually sweep things under the rug carpet area floor space carriage, n car; coach freight In Britain a railroad car or coach is called a carriage; car means ‘automobile’ ... n cat-boarding kennel Also cat-breeding establishment Cattery is heard in America cattle grid, n cattle guard cattleman, n cowhand A cattleman in America is a rancher or cattle owner In Britain ... spaced about four feet apart across small streams clapper-claw, v.t beat up Slang Clapper-claw is often used intransitively in a figurative sense to mean ‘claw one’s way’, e.g to the top in a toughly...