Pirate Terms And Phrases

Pirate Terms and Phrases

Link: The Sea is in Her Blood

Brig - A prison on a ship

Cutlass - A type of sword

Dance with Jack Ketch - To hang; death at the hands of the law (Jack Ketch was a famed English executioner)

Davy Jones's Locker - A mythical place at the bottom of the ocean where drowned sailors are said to go

Dead Men Tell No Tales - The reason given for leaving no survivors

Give No Quarter - Show no mercy

Keelhaul - A punishment where someone is dragged under the ship

Maroon - To leave someone stranded on a deserted island with no supplies, typically a punishment for any crew members who disrespected the captain

Mutiny - A situation in which the crew chooses a new captain, sometimes by forcibly removing the old one

No Prey, No Pay - A common pirate law that meant crew members were not paid, but rather received a share of whatever loot was taken

Pillage - To steal/rob a place using violence

Powder Monkeys - Men that performed the most dangerous work on the ship. They were treated harshly, rarely paid, and were expendable

Privateer - Government-appointed pirates

Run A Shot Across The Bow - Fire a warning shot

Scurvy - A disease caused by Vitamin C Deficiency

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Most shark attacks are either the shark mistaking a human for something else, or the shark just being curious

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1 year ago

top ten replacements for saying kms that don't make you sound like a fucking loser

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i'm going to kill YOU

i'm going to turn my entire body inside out through my digestive system

this is literally giving me incurable brain cancer

i'm going to turn into my werewolf form

sending me through the time vortex

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Elizabeth is Pirate King and captain of her own ship and crew (the Singaporean pirates); she doesn't have to stay on land and separated from Will for every 10 years that goes by. Not to mention the way Davy Jones handled having to be on the land (in a big enough tub/bucket of water). So does that mean the port in Singapore where Sao Feng was introduced would work? It's not exactly land even though it is port? It's wooden walkways above water...

2 years ago

I don’t want realism […] I’ll tell you what I want. Magic!

Tennessee Williams, from ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’

4 years ago
So Aria And I, Trapped In Quarantine For Months And Being Generally The Most Extra Lesbians You’ll

so aria and I, trapped in quarantine for months and being generally the most extra lesbians you’ll ever meet, spruced up our kitchen. pour one out for aria, who came up with the idea of the accent cabinets and then Made It Happen. local baroque femme is engaged to brilliant handy aesthete, news at eleven. 

(I meant to share this on twitter with like a hundred people and it went SO VIRAL that I’m getting messages from family members who are now seeing it on meme aggregate sites on instagram. with some paint and a little imagination, you too can have chaos in your mentions!)

2 years ago

now wait JUST ONE MOMENT this is RUDE

i keep a little poison pill in my ring just in case im captured by the enemy but i cant dry swallow so i also wear a vial of a single sip of water


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2 years ago

A man and a woman platonically raising a child together and not falling in love has to be the biggest plotwist in the Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves movie AND my favorite part

2 years ago

No time to talk, bitch. Get in the shark pile

No Time To Talk, Bitch. Get In The Shark Pile
No Time To Talk, Bitch. Get In The Shark Pile
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