A-Z Challenge Day 18

Posted Thursday April 21

My collection of neglected words now has six beginning with the letter R:-

Rubican. adj. of a horse, black or red with specks of white.

Rulley n.a four-wheeled flat wagon used for carrying goods.

Rudstay n. Strap over a horses back to which a wagon can be attached.

Redoubt n. rough and temporary fortification.

Rideau n. a ridge or mound used for defence.
Robinet n. cannon 

The messenger leapt from his rubican mare and handed the village headman a rolled parchment. It was not favourable news. He sounded the tocsin, and the men of the village ceased their labours and assembled in the square. They were to prepare for an invasion by a renegade group of turncoats from a township to the north. With all due haste they fetched a rulley. Using heavy leather rudstays they appended four fine stallions. After heaving a robinet and a collection of weapons aboard they started to trudge up the steep incline to the redoubt on the rideau. 

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Come the dawn, the sky above the vestiges of the village was thick with black smoke. Its men had been taken, their women and children left to fend for themselves.

And so the die was cast for nations across the world to this day.

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