A cleaving tool for splitting cask staves and shingles from the block.

(1782-1852) German educationist. He evolved a new system of education using instructive play, described in Education of Man 1826 and other works. In 1836 he founded the first kindergarten (German “garden for children”) in Blankenburg, Germany. He was influenced by the Swiss Johann Pestalozzi.

Genus of erect or procumbent herbs of the Americas having spikes of woolly white flowers: cottonweed; Also called: genus Froelichia.