• (specifically) A group of 6 or 8 sheaves of grain stacked to dry vertically in a rectangular arrangement at harvest time, obsolete since the advent of the combine harvester (mid 20th century).
• United States journalist (born in England in 1908)
• United States financier who marketed Union bonds to finance the American Civil War; the failure of his bank resulted in a financial panic in 1873 (1821-1905)
• English scientist who formulated the law of elasticity and proposed a wave theory of light and formulated a theory of planetary motion and proposed the inverse square law of gravitational attraction and discovered the cellular structure of cork and introduced the term `cell' into biology and invented a balance spring for watches (1635-1703)
• an elastic material obtained from the latex sap of trees (especially trees of the genera Hevea and Ficus) that can be vulcanized and finished into a variety of products
• a member of an important North American Indian people who controlled the mouth of the Columbia river; they were organized into settlements rather than tribes
• a warm dry wind blowing down the eastern slopes of the Rockies
• a Penutian language spoken by the Chinook
• pink or white flesh of large Pacific salmon
• large Pacific salmon valued as food; adults die after spawning
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