kaffiyeh (noun): a head covering of the tribesmen of the Tahari, it is a squarish cloth, folded into a trangle, and placed over the head, two points at the side of the shoulders, one in back to protect the back of the neck. It is bound to he head by several loops of cord, the agal.
kaiila (noun): large (20-22 hands), carnivorous mammal, with a long neck and silky fur; its eyes have 3 lids; is viviparous, has incredible stamina, and can be domesticated for riding in spite of its vicious temper; in the Tahari, its long hair is used to braid rope; its milk is potable by humans
Kaiila (noun): a tribe of Red Savages which inhabits the Barrens; their language is related to that of the Dust Legs
kaiila, desert (noun): also known as sand kaiila; this omnivorous animal is related to the southern kaiila and similar in most aspects barring pelt color and rearing of young; pelt color is tawny or black and young are suckled for a length of time. The men of the Tahari Desert use this mount.
kailla lance (noun): used for hunting kailiauk and mounted warfare, there are two types. The hunting lance are longer, heavier, and thicker than the war lance, and are undecorated except for the feathers of the prairie fleer. The point of the hunting lance is longer and narrower. The shafts are made from black, supple, and strong, made from tem wood. head is made of metal, bone or stone, affixed to the shaft with sinew, rawhide or metal trade rivets. Any decoration or mountings, such as wrist loops are bound onto the weapon with rawhide and sinew.
kaiila milk(noun): used by the peoples of the Tahari as verr milk is used elsewhere, it is reddish with a salty strong taste due to the content of ferrous sulfate.
kaiila reins(noun): a light rein, plaited with 10 to 12 strips of dyed leather. Each strip is cut with knives to be thinner than a thread, but the combination is very strong and durable. Used by the Tribesmen of the Tahari.
Kaiila River (noun): a river in the Barrens, it has two branches known as the North Kaiila River and the South Kaiila River. The Snake River is a tributary of the North Kaiila River. These rivers mark important boundaries in the territories of the Isanna, Napoktan, Wismahi, Isbu and Casmu bands of the Kaiila tribe. It is conjectured that the Kaiila Tribe, finding large herds of kaiila, took the name for themselves, and later the River of the Kaiila Tribe became, simply, the Kaiila River.
kaiila, southern (noun): large (20-22 hands) carnivorous mammal with long neck and silky fur; its eyes have 3 lids; is viviparous has incredible stamina (capable of covering 600 in a day) and can be domesticated for riding in spite of its vicious temper. It has a rich gold to black. The kaiila is a mammal, but there is no suckling of the young, who begin hunt within hours of birth. These are the mounts of the Wagon Peoples.
kail (direction): directional division of a gorean map.
kailiauk (noun): stocky ruminant, tawny with red and brown markings on haunches, having 3 horns; stands c. 20-25 hands at the shoulder; weighing as much as 4,000 lbs, they migrate across the Barrens in massive herds, hunted by Red Savages and those who trade in their hides. They have a trident horn.
Kailiauk, city of(noun): town on the Frontier of The Barrens, NE of Fort Haskins; the easternmost town at the foot of the Thentis mountains. It is a major trade center for the purchase, processing and selling of kailiauk hides taken from the massive herds which traverse The Barrens. It is also a slave trade center, dealing primarily in barbarian girls which are sold at various points along the perimeter.
kailiauk, forest (noun): four-legged wide-headed, lumbering, stocky ruminants, described as short-trunked and tawny. The males have 3 trident-like horns, with brown and reddish bars on the haunches. The males are 400 to 500 Gorean stone (1600-2000lbs) and are 10 hands at the shoulder. The females are 8 hands and weigh 300 - 400 Gorean stone (1200-1600 lbs). Their horns and tooled hides are major exports of the port of Schendi.
kailiauk, prairie (noun): short-trunked, stocky, awkward ruminant of the plains. Their color is tawny with haunches marked in red and brown bars. Their wide heads bear a trident horn. They instinctively circle when resting, their she's and young protected within.
Kailiauk, Tribe (noun): a tribe of Red Savages which inhabits the Barrens; their language is a dialect of Kaiila.
Kaissa (noun; lit. 'the game'): a board game much favored on Gor; the board is marked with 100 squares, colored alternately red and yellow; there are 20 pieces per side, which represent Ubar and Ubara, Initiates, Riders of the High Tharlarion, Tarnsmen, Scribes, Builders, Spearmen or Spear Slaves, and the Home Stone; it is played much like chess, the object being to capture one's opponent's Home Stone; in Torvaldsland, the Ubar, Ubara, tarnsman, Initiate, and Scribes are replaced by the Jarl, Jarl's Woman, Ax, Rune-Priest, and Singer, respectively
kaissa ciphers (noun): used by the caste of players for transmission of private messages but can be used by anyone; often extremely difficult to decipher.
Kaissa sand clock (noun): a device used for timing kaiisa moves, it has a spigot arrangement to enable the flow of sand. When it is open for one player, it is off for the other. Each player enables it, as his play is completed.
kajira (noun): slave girl; pl. kajirae
kajira canjellne (phrase): Gorean term meaning literally 'slave challenge'; one Gorean challenges another to combat the winner taking the slave as prize.
kajirii (noun): serves as the plural designation for kajirus, and also is the proper term for the plural when speaking of both slave genders.
kajirus (noun): male slave; pl. kajiri
Kajuralia (noun; lit. 'holiday of slaves'): a festival, similar to the Feast of Fools, is which slaves trade places with their masters and have much freedom to play tricks on free persons; celebrated in most cities on the last day of the 12th Passage Hand, but in Ar and some other cities on the last day of the 5th month, the day before the Love Feast
Ka-la-na ( (noun): 1) a tree with very strong yellow wood, used for making bows; 2) a very potent dry red wine, made from the fruit of the Ka-la-na tree
kal-da (noun): alcoholic beverage made of ka-la-na wine diluted with citrus juices and mixed with strong spices, and served hot
kalika (noun): musical instrument having a long neck and hemispheric sound box, its 6 strings being plucked; similar to a banjo
kalmak (noun): vest of black leather worn by the slave girls of the Wagon Peoples
kamba (noun): Gorean word for rope.
Kamba River (noun): empties directly into the Thassa outside the Harbor of Schendi. It leads into the rainforest.
kanda (noun): a plant which grows in desert regions of Gor. It's roots are extremely toxic, even poisonous, but the leaves can be rolled and formed into strings which are chewed or sucked to produce a stimulant effect.
kanda shrub (noun): A shrub of the Gorean desert; a lethal poison can be extracted from its roots while chewing the leaves has an addictive narcotic.
kan-lara (noun): slave brand
kantharos (noun): decanter, pitcher.
kara (noun): turning
Kargash (noun): Town located on the western coast of Gor between Turia and the Anango Island.
Karl whale (noun): four-fluked baleen whale hunted by the Red Hunters.
Kashani (noun): a minor tribe of the Tahari; they are a vassal tribe of the Kavars
kaska (noun): a small hand drum
Kasra (noun): a river port on the Lower Fayeen; downriver from Kurtzal and west of Tor; famed on Gor for its production of red salt. The salt is brought in from secret pits and mines in heavy cylinders on pack kaiila.
Kassars (noun): one of the 4 tribes of the Wagon Peoples; also called the Blood People; their standard is a scarlet bola
Kassau (noun): A northern coastal Free Trade Port city located at inlet of Thassa, with the northern forests behind it, northwest of Port Kar and the Mts. of Thentis and west of Torvaldsland. This is a town at the northern brink of the great forests of Gor. The trade is largely in furs from the north, exchanged for weapons, ironbars, salt and luxury items from the south. It is the seat of the High Initiate of the north who claims spiritual sovereignty over Torvaldsland.
Kataii (noun): one of the 4 tribes of the Wagon Peoples, whose members are Negroid; their standard is a yellow bow
katch (noun): foliated leaf vegetable.
Kavars (noun): a major tribe of the Tahari; their vassal tribes are the Ta'Kara, Bakahs, Char, and Kashani; their war-cry is 'Kavars Supreme!'
kef (noun): a letter of the Gorean alphabet, analogous with the Earth letter 'K'; the first letter of the Gorean words for male and female slaves, and hence often used as a brand
keleustes(noun): on an oared ship, the man responsible for beating time for rowers on a copper drum or wooden block.
kennel (noun): a small, concrete room, usu. 3'x3'x4', having an iron grill for a door, in which a slave girl may be confined at night
kes (noun): 1)a shrub whose salty, blue secondary roots are a main ingredient in sullage 2) short tunic of black leather worn by the male slaves of the Wagon Peoples
kettle-and-mat girl (noun): a slave girl whose function is divided between household tasks and sexual servitude
Khurtzal (noun): A village, upriver from Kasra on the Lower Fayeen River, north of Tor, overland. It is little more than a loading and shipping point on the Lower Fayeen.
ki (adv.): no, not; also indicates a negative (ex. 'la ki kajira' - I am not a slave girl)
Kinyanpi (noun): warrior tarnsmen of the Red Savages, they are also called, 'The Flighted Ones'
kirtle (noun): the garb of a slave girl of the Torvald thin white woolen garment ankle-length with a deep plunging neckline.
kites (noun): a type of bird with a shrill call.
klim (noun): directional division of a Gorean map.
Klima (noun): salt mines of the Tahari desert, Klima was used as a form of penetentiary system where the salt Ubar send all who were found guilty of crimes to serve as slaves. Following the fall of Abdul however, Klima went on to become more of a City ruled by its own.
Kneel to the Coffle (command): The girls kneel, closely, one behind the other, as their left wrists are placed in wrist rings; this is usually followed by the order to stand and then the order "Lower chain" where the girls lower their wrists. Thusly they are then in line, standing, coffled.
Kneel to the Whip (position): this command orders a slave to kneel, bowing her head to her knees, her wrists crossed under her as though bound. The position is intended to expose her back to the whip.
Knee Walk (command): She travels on her knees, without standing, to fetch items or tend to duties. Also a Turian Knee Walk is mentioned, but not described except that it is sometimes used by slave dancers.
knife brand (noun): rather like a tattoo, an appropriate design is cut into the thigh of a slave and a colored powder is rubbed into it.
knife, hook (noun): a common knife with a curved blade used in slave competitions or hand-to-hand combat.
knife, killing (noun): described as a throwing knife like those used in Ar, smaller than the quiva, a kanda paste is applied to the tip of the blade. An assassin's weapon.
knife, snow (noun): large curved tabuk-bone, saw-toothed knife, used to cut into the snow to make snow blocks as for building iglu's in the Innuit country of the far north.
knife, turf (noun): wooden-bladed, saw-edged, paddle-like tool, used by Red Savages to cut and saw sod. When the handle is held in the right hand and the blade is supported with the left, it may be used as a shovel.
knife, whip (noun): a whip with razors embedded in the tip.
knot bondage (noun): a loose knot tied in a slave's long hair near her right cheek or before her right shoulder that has two meanings, depending on how it is used. If a slave girl approaches a Master and kneels naked before him, looping the knot herself, she silently begs for use. If a Master ties the knot himself, notably during a time of battle, it is his way of marking the girl as taken if he must continue on, leaving her bound behind.
knot, capture (noun): a knot recognized for it's unique turnings as rope or binding fiber tied by a Warrior; usually in the capture of a slave girl but also used on any likely foe.
koda (noun): Dust Leg word meaning friend.
kodakiciyapi (noun): Dust Leg word meaning peace, friendship.
kola (noun): Kaiila word meaning friend.
ko-lar (noun): slave collar
Ko-lar (Collar) or Position of Female Submission (command): She kneels at the Master's feet and leans her body back, sitting upon her heels, with her arms extended upward, crossed at the wrists, and her head beneath them lowered in supplication
koora (noun): strip of red fabric worn as a headband by the slave girls of the Wagon Peoples
Ko-ro-ba (noun): 1) an archaic expression for a village market. 2) a city northwest of the Thentis Mountains. It is also northwest of Ar, across the Vosk. The city is also known as the Towers of the Morning. Its Administrator is Matthew Cabot, the father of Tarl Cabot. The city was destroyed by the Priest-Kings once but was permitted to be rebuilt.
kort (noun): a rinded fruit of the Tahari; served sliced with melted cheese and nutmeg
kosis (noun): disease
Kur (noun; lit. 'beast'; pl. kurii; a corruption of their name for themselves): a large (8-9') furred, mammal having 4 legs, which can stand upright or on all fours; each paw has 6 multiply jointed digits with retractable claws and an opposing thumb, so that it can grip; it has 2 rows of teeth; they are incredibly strong and ferocious, and are carnivorous, even to eating humans
kurdah (noun): a small, light, semicircular tent, c. 3' in diameter and 4' high, carried by a pack kaiila, in which women (slave or free) may ride; the frame is of tem-wood and is covered with layers of white rep-cloth; used mainly in the Tahari
Kur Hand (noun): name of a military unit in Kurii which consists of six Blood.
Kurii axe (noun): great, double-bladed iron axe some seven or eight feet in height. The blade, from tip to tip is two feet in width. The handle is made of carved, green needle wood, round and four inches in diameter.
Kurii, race of (noun): an alien race existing in their space ships, which orbit in the asteroid belts of the outer atmosphere, their 'Steel World'. It is thought that their own world had been destroyed, partially as a result of their advanced technology, ferocity, and greed. They are locked in a war with the Priest-Kings for the domination of Gor and Earth. Their ships have sometimes been shattered and have fallen to the surface. It is the practice of the Priest-Kings to destroy the wrecks, but they do not hunt down and exterminate the survivors. These marooned Kur are allowed to live if they abide by the laws of the Priest-Kings. They are extremely powerful, hightly intelligent, fond of killing and technologically advanced.
Kurii shield (noun): a wide iron shield, round and four feet in diameter.
kurt (noun): the five bladed slave whip
Kurtzal (noun): village is north of Tor; little more than a loading and shipping point on the Lower Fayeen.
kwah (noun): a Gorean letter similiar to "q".
