yeoman - zeman

noun, British English, dated - (in history) a farmer who was free and owned the land he worked on

slot - otvor (na něco)

noun - a narrow opening in a machine, esp. for inserting a coin, a card etc.

 

water over the dam - minulost, historie, něco pasé

noun - an event that happened in the past and so cannot be changed or undone

coloured pencil - pastelka

noun - a kind of pencil you use to write or draw something in different colours

 

senate - senát

noun - the smaller of the two groups of people that make laws in a country

 

transistor - tranzistor

noun - an electronic device that controls the current, it is used in radios, computers etc.

goblin - skřítek, šotek

noun - a small ugly supernatural creature which makes trouble for people (esp. in fairy tales)

 

clerk - prodavač

noun, American English - a shop assistant, a person whose job is to serve customers in a shop

womb - děloha

noun - the organ in a woman's body where the fetus develops before it is born

obsolete - zastaralý

adjective - no longer in use, no longer being produced, because something better has been developed

Iowa - Iowa

noun - a state in the Midwest of the United States, its capital is Des Moines

fork - rozcestí

noun - the place where a road becomes divided into several roads going in different directions

 

rekindle - znovu zapálit (přen.), znovu vzbudit (např. zájem o něco)

verb - to bring back somebody's feelings etc. that they used to have in the past

 

home economics - rodinná výchova (školní předmět), rodinka (školní předmět)

noun - the school subject in which you learn how to cook and manage a household

 

home ec - rodinná výchova (školní předmět), rodinka (školní předmět)

noun - the school subject in which you learn how to cook and manage a household