Which Southern word means repairing, but before "to" means "about to"?

Introduced during the French Revolution, which execution device was last used in France in 1977? Irish geologist Richard Oldham discovered that which events produce primary and secondary waves? On your cruise you seem to have had a case of what the French call "mal de mer". What is it? Which word can mean a hiding place for food or treasure, or fast memory on a computer's processor or motherboard? Which term describes the final half of an 18-hole golf course? It was a small flowing body of water before it became a continuous transfer of data. What is it? What was novelist Henry Miller's middle name, though he wasn't born on February 14 and was certainly no saint? Which city was officially made the capital of a kingdom 109 years before it became a state capital?