Lesson 2 The Hole in the Dike

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Lesson 2The Hole in the Dike
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Windmill wind/mill

• A mill or machine that uses the power of the wind
  to turn the vanes or sails.
• Peter loved to look at the old windmills turning
  slowly.

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Dikes

• A thick wall built to hold back water.
• The land is kept safe and dry by high, strong
  walls called dikes.

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Trickling trick/ling

• Flowing drop by drop.
• He saw a small stream of water trickling through
  a hole in the dike below.

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Numb

• Having no feeling.
• His fingers grew cold and numb.

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Rumbling Rum/bling

• Make a deep, heavy, continuous sound
• It was the milk cart rumbling down the road.

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Flooded

• A great flow of water over dry land
• To fill much higher than usual
• Without these dikes the land would be flooded and
  everything would be washed away.

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Other words to know. Gushing

• Pouring out suddenly and in large amounts
• Page 124

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Hero

• A person who is looked up to because of brave or
  courageous acts
• Page 130

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Gurgling

• Making a sound like a bubbling liquid
• Page 122

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Echo

• A sound that repeats after it hits a hollow wall,
  or distant hills
• Page 124

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