1. Black beauty
- one of bestseller novels by English author Anna Sewell.
- By telling the story of a horse's life in the form of an autobiography and describing the world through the eyes of the horse.
- Purpose in writing the novel was "to induce kindness, sympathy, and an understanding treatment of horses" Her sympathetic portrayal of the plight of working animals led to a vast outpouring of concern for animal welfare
- Black Beauty also contains the use of blinders on horses, concluding that this use is likely to cause accidents at night due to interference with "the full use of" a horse's ability to "see much better in the dark than men can."
2. Hamper
- A hamper is a primarily British term for a wicker basket, usually large, that is used for the transport of items, often food.
In America, the term generally refers to a household receptacle for dirty clothing, regardless of its composition, i.e. "a laundry hamper".
In agricultural use, a hamper is a wide-mouthed container of basketwork that may often be carried on the back during the harvesting of fruit or vegetables by hand by workers in the field. The contents of the hamper may be decanted regularly into larger containers or a cart, wagon, or truck.
The open ventilation and the sturdiness offered by a hamper has made it suitable for the transport of food, hence the use of the picnic hamper.
In agricultural use, a hamper is a wide-mouthed container of basketwork that may often be carried on the back during the harvesting of fruit or vegetables by hand by workers in the field. The contents of the hamper may be decanted regularly into larger containers or a cart, wagon, or truck.
The open ventilation and the sturdiness offered by a hamper has made it suitable for the transport of food, hence the use of the picnic hamper.
3. Jack O'Lantern
- typically a carved pumpkin. It is associated chiefly with the holiday Halloween, and was named after the phenomenon of strange light flickering over peat bogs, called ignis fatuus or jack-o'-lantern. In a jack-o'-lantern, typically the top is cut off, and the inside flesh then scooped out; an image, usually a monstrous face, is carved onto the outside surface, and the lid replaced. At night a light is placed inside to illuminate the effect. The term is not particularly common outside North America, although the practice of carving lanterns for Halloween is.
4. vanity mirror
- a small mirror in a motor vehicle for checking one's appearance, esp. on the inside of a sun visor
5. He goes Banana
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