members of high society
Toriana:
short name for Provincial Union of Victoriana, the alternate-history name for the United States
tosser:
a drunk
trade:
business
trolling:
looking for work
trunch:
a wooden baton carried by beaters
tubes:
a system of pneumatic pipes that deliver goods and food across the city
tunneler:
an underground city worker who polices the subsurface tunnels and keeps the city’s tube in operation
understair:
belowground level of building; cellar or basement
unjammer:
a mechanical snakelike device used to unblock tubes
uptoppers:
above street level
vicar:
priest of the Torianglican Church
waders:
thigh-high protective rubber boots
waister:
a wide cummerbund-type belt made of fabric that females wear around their waists to cover the joining of skirts and bodices
warders:
magic practitioners who create protective charms and spells to protect people, possessions, and property
wardling:
an object used as a protective charm
warren:
a tunneler’s assigned work area
watershed:
raincoat
Welshires:
people from Wales
whitecart:
horse-drawn conveyance used to transport the wounded to hospital or the mentally disturbed to asylum
wichcart:
a street cart that sells sandwiches
willowbark:
herbal remedy for headaches and hangovers (equivalent to aspirin)
winge:
slang for an older, grouchy person
Yard, the:
short name for New Scotland Yard
zoopraxiscope:
a device that uses images on glass disks as the first form of stop-motion projection
