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Tabor - (noun): a small drum
Tabuk- (noun): a kind of antelope, being yellow in color and having
a single horn
Tajuks - (noun): a minor tribe of the Tahari; they are a vassal
tribe of the Aretai
Ta'Kara - (noun): a minor tribe of the Tahari; they are a vassal
tribe of the Kavars
Tal - (noun): greetings; often accompanied with a salute performed
by raising the right hand to shoulder level, palm inward
Talender - (noun): delicate, yellow-petaled meadow flower, symbolic
of feminine love and beauty; a crown of talendars is often worn by
a free woman during the Companionship ceremoney; worn in a slavegirl's
hair, it is a silent plea for her to be raped
Talmit - (noun): headband
Talu - (noun): a unit a measure equalling 2 gallons
Taluna - (noun; lit. 'panther girl'): a free woman who lives as
a hunter in small tribes of 15-100 members; they roam the northern
forests of Gor
Tar - (preposition): to
Tar-Sardar-Gor - (lit. 'To the Priest-Kings of Gor'): ritual phrase
recited during the pre- banquet libation in which a few grains of
meal, colored salt, and a few drops of wine are placed in a fire;
the equivalent of saying grace
Tarn - (noun): crested, hawk-like bird large enough to be ridden;
used in battle and in racing
Tarn
cot - (noun): building in which domes- ticated tarns are housed
Tarn
disk, copper - (noun): a unit of currency
Tarn
disk, gold - (noun): a unit of currency, of the highest value
on Gor; also made in double- weight; many cities on Gor mint their
own money, but the gold tarn disk of Ar is the standard for much
of Gor
Tarn
goad - (noun):
an electrical device, much like a cattle prod, used for controlling
tarns; is c. 20" long
Tarn
ship - (noun): a type of ram-ship, being long and narrow, with
a shallow draft, a straight keel, a single lateen-rigged mast, and
a single bank of oars; at the prow, below the waterline, is a ram
shaped like a tarn's head; it also carries light catapults, shearing
blades, and other weaponry
Tarn
wire - (noun): razor wire strung between the walls of a city
to protect it from aerial attack
Tarna - (noun): daughter
Tarsk - (noun): a) porcine animal akin to the Earth pig, having
a bristly mane which runs down its spine to the base of the tail;
b) copper coin that is the whole coin of least value, equalling 10
tarsk bits
Tarsk,
giant - (noun): large cousin of the tarsk, standing 10 hands
high at the shoulder
Tarsk,
silver - (noun): a coin worth 100 copper tarsks
Tarsk
bit - (noun): a copper coin worth from 1/10 to 1/4 of a copper
tarsk, depending on the city which mints the coin
Tashid - (noun): a minor tribe of the Tahari; they are a vassal
tribe of the Aretai
Tassa
powder - (noun): a reddish powder, usually mixed with red wine,
which renders the consumer unconscious
Tassna - (noun): mother
Tasta - (noun): founding, as of a city
Ta-Teera - (noun): a one-piece, sleeveless, short slave garment;
similar to a slave tunic, but more ragged and revealing; often referred
to as the 'slave rag'
Ta-Thassa - (phrase; lit. 'to the sea'): ritual phrase invoked during
a libation offering of wine, oil, and salt made to Thassa
Tatrix - (noun): title of the female ruler of the city of Tharna
Tau - (noun): a letter of the Gorean alphabet; corresponds to the
Earth letter 'T'
Tef - (noun): a unit of measure, consisting of a handful of whatever
produce (such as dates) is being weighed; 6 tefs equal one tefa
Tefa - (noun): 1) a unit of measure equalling 6 tefs, or handfuls;
5 tefas equal 1 huda; 2) a small basket
Telekint - (noun):
a plant of the Tahari; its roots, mashed & mixed
with water, provide a red dye
Tem - (noun): a tree which produces a black wood that is very strong;
ebony
Tenth
ahn - (noun): tenth 'hour', the Gorean noon
Teslik - (noun): a plant whose extract is the active ingredient
in breeding wine
Tharlarions - (noun): one of several types of large, carnivorous
reptiles, some of which have been domesticated; it's fat is rendered
to provide lamp oil; see also: mamba
Tharlarion,
broad - (noun): sluggish tharlarion used as draft animals;
herbivorous
Tharlarion,
high - (noun): agile tharlarion used as a mount for
riding; like T. rex, they have very short, almost useless, forelegs;
carnivores
Tharlarion,
river - (noun): extremely large, herbivorous, web-footed
lizards used by bargemen of the Cartius River to pull barges
Tharlarion,
rock - (noun): a small reptile of the Tahari
Tharlarion
boots - (noun): high boots of soft leather worn by riders
of high tharlarion to protect their legs from the abrasive hides
of their mounts
Thassa - (noun): the sea
Third
Knowledge - (noun): that which, if it exists, is reserved
for the Priest-Kings
Thieves,
Caste of - (noun): the caste of those who make their living
by stealing, robbery, picking pockets, etc.; exists only in Port
Kar
Ti - (noun): a minor tribe of the Tahari; they are a vassal tribe
of the Aretai
Tibit - (noun): a small, thin-legged bird which lives on tiny mollusks
found on the shores of Thassa; sandpiper
Tola,
Feast of - (noun): the Priest-King festival celebrating the
anniversary of the Nuptial Flight of the Mother
Tolam,
Feast of - (noun): the Priest-King festival celebrating the
anniversary of the Deposition of the First Egg
Tolama,
Feast of - (noun): the Priest-King festival celebrating
the anniversary of the Hatching of the First Egg
Toos - (noun): a crab-like organism with overlapping plating; inhabits
the Nest and scavenges on discarded fungus spores
Tor - (noun): light
Tor-Tu-Gor - (noun; lit. 'light upon the Home Stone'): the sun
Torvis - (noun): fire
Tospit - (noun): a bitter, juicy citrus fruit
Tower
Slave -
(noun): a state slavegirl in any of the cities of Gor; her duties
in the apartment cylinders are largely domestic;
traditionally, she kneels with her knees together & with her
wrists crossed in front of her, as if for binding
Tu - (noun): on; upon
Tu - (phrase): you are
Tuchuk - (noun): one of the four tribes of the Wagon Peoples; their
standard is a representation of 4 bosk horns
Tufted
fisher - (noun): a waterbird which inhabits the rivers of
the rainforests inland of Schendi
Tumit - (noun): large flightless bird, about the size of an ostrich,
having an 18'-long hooked beak; carnivorous
Tun - (noun): a letter of the Gorean alphabet; derived from demotic
Egyptian
Tur - (noun): a reddish tree having a large trunk
Turia - (noun): a major city-state of Gor, located south of the
equator; named for the single Tur tree found at the bank of the stream
by which it was built; celebrates the New Year at the summer solstice;
often referred to as the 'Ar of the South'
Tur-pah - (noun): an edible tree parasite with curly, red, ovate
leaves; grows on the tur tree; a main ingredient in sullage
Twentieth
ahn - (noun): twentieth 'hour', the Gorean midnight
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