The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Vocabulary

to linger or wait around and do nothing

• demon

• tarry

• board

• appetite

desire or craving, often for food

• tarry

• bewitched

• appetite

• crested

haunted by a spell or curse

• bewitched

• steed

• demon

• Hessian

to provide someone with food and a place to stay

• idiom

• superstition

• tarry

• board

someone who is disloyal to his or her country, government, or friends

• demon

• Hessian

• traitor

• appetite

reached the very top of something such as a hill

• steed

• crested

• board

• traitor

a phrase or expression that typically presents a figurative, non-literal meaning attached to the it

• idiom

• board

• crest

• steed

invisible force that pulls objects towards Earth's center

• Hessian

• demon

• idiom

• gravity

German soldier hired by the British to fight the American colonists during the Revolutionary War (1775-1783)

• demon

• superstition

• Hessian

• tarry

a horse, especially a large, powerful one

• steed

• idiom

• appetite

• Hessian