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A SHORT DROP AND A QUICK STOP look up translate image: A reference to hanging.
ABBEY LUBBER look up translate image: A loiterer that could work but will not.
ABEAM look up translate image: The direction at right angles to the hull. To either side of the ship
ABLE SEAMAN look up translate image: A skilled sailor
ABRAHAM MEN look up translate image: Vagabonds that beg by pretendin' to �ave been discharged with no money from ships.
ADDLE look up translate image: Putrid water in the water barrels.
ADRIFT look up translate image: Floating about out of control.
ADVENTURE look up translate image: An enterprise in which something is risked or left to chance.
AFEARD look up translate image: A common way of saying afraid.
AFT. OR ABAFT look up translate image: The direction towards the stern of the ship. That's the "back" for land-lubbers.
AHOY look up translate image: A shout used to get someone's attention.
ALOFT look up translate image: The top part of the masts and rigging.
AMBUSH look up translate image: Hiding so as to attack without warnin'.
ARRR look up translate image: A multipurpose mostly positive exclamation not to be confused with ARRRGH which is usually negative.
ARTHUR look up translate image: A well known sea game.
ARTICLES look up translate image: A set of rules which govern pirate's behaviour on a vessel.
AURORA look up translate image: The faint light seen before sunrise.
AVAST look up translate image: Stop, hold, cease or desist. AVAST YE SCURVY DOGS : Stop that now or there'll be trouble.
AYE look up translate image: A way of sayin' yes. AYE AYE : A way of sayin' yes to someone that's a bit deaf.
BACK-O'-BEYOND look up translate image: A long way from anywhere. Usually where ye don't want t' be
BACK-STAFF look up translate image: A tool the navigator uses to work out how high the sun is in the sky. Helps �im work out where we are, while everybody else is scratching their heads.
BALLAST look up translate image: Heavy stuff in the hold of the ship to keep her steady.
BARKING IRONS look up translate image: Large duelling pistols.
BARNACLE look up translate image: A type of shell fish that sticks to the bottom of the ship's hull. If too many get attached they'll slow the ship down so they need to be scraped off regularly.
BATTEN DOWN THE HATCHES look up translate image: Means cover the hatches to the lower decks with canvas during a storm to stop water from getting belowdecks.
BEATING look up translate image: Sailin' towards the wind in a zig zag line.
BEATING THE BOOBY look up translate image: Slapping of hands around your arms to warm your self up on a cold watch.
BECALMED look up translate image: Not able to sail because there is no wind.
BEFORE THE MAST look up translate image: The station of a sailor that is not an officer.
BELAY look up translate image: To secure, tie up or make fast, often another way of sayin' stop.
BELAYING PIN look up translate image: A wooden rod sitting in a hole on the rail that a rope can be tied to temporarily. A useful improvised weapon aboard a sailing ship because they're everywhere and just right for a club.
BELL look up translate image: Every half hour of a four hour watch the ship's bell is rung to show how many half hours have passed. If an hour has past it would be rung twice and we would say the time was "two bells" of that watch.
BILBOES look up translate image: A method of securing captives by means of a metal bar to which shackles be fixed. This is what we means when we say "Clap him in irons."
BILGE look up translate image: The lowest part of the ship. Wet, musty and full of rats.
BLACK JACK look up translate image: Another name for a pirate flag.
BLACK SPOT look up translate image: A black mark on a piece of paper that means "We're going to get ya" or somethin' like that.
BLEEDING THE MONKEY look up translate image: Stealin' the grog.
BLETHERING look up translate image: Talking nonsense.
BLOODY FLAG look up translate image: A red flag we use to say "We're goin' to kill the lot of yer."
BLOW THE GAFF look up translate image: Givin' away a secret or informin'.
BLUNDERBUSS look up translate image: A short fire arm with a wide mouth that scatters musket balls over a wide area.
BOOM look up translate image: A long spar extending from the mast to extend the foot of a sail. Also the sound a cannon makes when fired at the enemy.
BOOTY look up translate image: That be treasure to you or me.
BOREAS look up translate image: A name for the North wind.
BOSUN (ALSO BOATSWAIN) look up translate image: An officer on the ship who is in charge of the ship's rigging, anchors, cables, and deck crew.
BOW look up translate image: The front of the ship or boat.
BOW CHASERS look up translate image: A pair of guns mounted in the bow to fire directly ahead.
BOWSPRIT look up translate image: The slanted spar that sticks out over the bow of the ship and is used to support the fore-mast and spread the fore stay sail.
BRIGANTINE OR BRIG look up translate image: A two-masted ship, square-rigged on both masts.
BROAD ARROW look up translate image: The British royal mark for government stores.

Pirate glossary

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Pirate school visits. Living history presentations and workshops for literacy.

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Talk like a pirate. . . ... or at least understand some of the terms that are such a big part of pirate lore and history. Know another one that's not on this list?...

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