Pirate Slang

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1. What is a cat-o'-nine-tails? a pretty bar maid a drink enjoyed by pirates a cat who is possessed a whip used for flogging

2. What does it mean to "feed the fish"? to be thrown into the sea throw food into the sea retire from piracy to be flogged

3. What is the Dead Man's Chest? where a pirate keeps his booty an empty rum bottle cold storage for food on a journey a coffin

4. What is another name for the hangman? John Quelch Black Bart Jack Ketch Henry Avery

5. What would Pirate's call empty bottles? dead ladies goners deadlights dead men

6. What is cackle fruit? chicken eggs green apples fruit that makes you laugh coconuts

7. Who was a 'powder monkey"? boys who served as lookouts boys who swabbed the decks boys who loaded and cleaned the guns boys who cooked the meals on ship

8. What is a barker? a sword a pistol a hatchet an ax

9. What is a caulker? a special cannon used by pirates only when battling Spain a drink to celebrate a victory at sea. an alcoholic drink taken after a drinking bout a drink that was taken when the captain of a ship died

10. What are you doing if you're 'dancing the hempen jig'? climbing the ship's mast swimming being hanged getting drunk