Pirate Slang

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

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 a coffin cold storage for food on a journey an empty rum bottle

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

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

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

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

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

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

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