Pirate Vocabulary

Pirates

Buccaneers

Privateers

Corsairs

Lubbers

Vile booty

Gale

Mutineer

Captain Kidd

Doubloons

Pieces-of-eight

Jolly Roger

Ransom

Barnacles

Seven Seas

El Dorado

Pirates’ Articles of Agreement (Brethren-of-the-Coast Rules)

Cutlass

Pistols

Muskets

Rigging

Hull

Bow

Stern

Aft

Galley

Mainmast

Hold

Sloop

Galleon

Mainsail

Spanish Main