bookmarked pages associated with this title. Back of Rackhams – often used as an insult, as the back of Rackhams was thought to be a red light area. the rules Throughout this part, Silver and the others are referring to a set of rules or code of honor by which gentlemen of fortune have agreed to be bound; this was slightly different from ship to ship and from pirate captain to captain, but was essentially a democratic code specifying rights and responsibilities. sealed orders orders that are to be accepted before the person being ordered knows their substance or contents (such as Smollett was given when he signed on as captain of the Hispaniola without knowing the destination of the voyage); here, Silver means that he has taken Livesey's warning without understanding what kind of trouble the doctor has in mind.
In nautical terms, to gammon is to lash up, make secure; Silver is using this figuratively, meaning something like "I'll make sure that doctor is acting in our interests.". Negress was in Stevenson's day an acceptable, polite term to designate a woman of African descent, whereas Trelawney's phrase, correct in the early twenty-first century, was condescending in earlier times. I looked through the passage and saw that the gulley was black with baboons. “Columbus Day” vs. “Indigenous Peoples’ Day”: What Should This Holiday Be Called?
. Slang is very informal language or specific words used by a particular group of people. we'll fight the ship .
Jolly Roger a black flag of pirates, with a white skull and crossbones.
lanyard a short rope or cord used on board ship; a cord hung round the neck (by sailors) used to hang something.
boatswain a ship's warrant officer or petty officer in charge of the deck crew, anchors, boats, etc. It’s this meaning of gully that’s apparently at work in the expression get gully. depytation deputation, a group of persons or a person appointed to represent others. coracle a short, roundish boat of skins or waterproofed canvas stretched over a wood or wicker frame. Peaky blinder – a flat cap worn by the Birmingham gang in the 1900s. Polt : Politics. Information about your device and internet connection, including your IP address, Browsing and search activity while using Verizon Media websites and apps. the long nine a large artillery piece mounted on the ship; this is primed with powder and wadding; loaded with nine-pound, round lead shot; aimed; and fired by a gunner by touching the powder with a lit match.
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two fathoms and a half fifteen feet; a fathom is a unit of length used to measure the depth of water or the length of a nautical rope or cable, equal to six feet (1.8288 meters). I'm ashamed to be a little slang-challenged. “Columbus Day” vs. “Indigenous Peoples’ Day”: What Should This Holiday Be Called? link a torch made of tow and pitch; here, Silver uses the word simply to mean "a light" (for his pipe). . backstay a stay (heavy rope or cable used for support) extending aft (toward the rear) from a masthead to the side or stern of a vessel. in die Straßendecke eingelassener Sinkkasten, durch den die Straßenabwässer in die Kanalisation abgeführt werden, englisch gully, eigentlich = Rinne, wohl zu: gullet = Schlund < altfranzösisch goulet, Verkleinerungsform von: goule < lateinisch gula = Kehle, der, auch: das Gully; Genitiv: des Gullys, Plural: die Gullys.
head sea an ocean current moving in a direction opposite that of the ship's motion; sailing would be rough here. we've split upon Jim Hawkins Silver is opposing Tom Morgan's argument that Jim should be killed. the fable of the mountain and the mouse This is in reference to a saying ("a mountain labored and gave birth to a mouse") and means, roughly, "you seemed to be going to say a lot more than you finally did say.". To cut or tear a page out of a Bible is apparently considered very bad luck. . conned the ship . It’s raining in – rain is getting inside the house, close the window.
keep a bright lookout to lie more or less stationary (as a ship, with the bow into the wind) and keep an alert watch.
You're on a lee shore A lee shore is a sheltered shore, out of the wind; thus Smollett means that Silver and his pirates are in a bad position with no good way out. Then the trail was lost in a gully where the animals had gone in every direction to get through.
. A face as long as Livery Street – a really sad face. my cock my fine young man; the cock is the male of the chicken (in modern American usage, the rooster) and certain other birds, and in another sense the word can mean leader or chief, especially one with some boldness or arrogance.
already ambushed already waiting in ambush. Arse — There could be an entire English dictionary devoted to variations of this single word. All rights reserved.
The camel was in a gulley between the second and third hills. Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache.
a common sailor, not an officer; from the quarters of the crew ahead of the foremast. saber a heavy cavalry sword with a slightly curved blade. manufactory factory; manufacturing plant. handspike a heavy bar used as a lever, as in turning a capstan.
. Please help a sistah out. Sie sind öfter hier? So liegen Sie immer richtig, „m/w/d“? separate peace a treaty or agreement that affects only one individual or group within a larger group. doldrums equatorial ocean regions noted for dead calms; a sailing ship in the doldrums may be becalmed indefinitely for lack of wind. . my long home the grave; a euphemism for death. a strong scour with the ebb . Nause – someone who makes a mess of something. (Edward England was a historical pirate; he died in the early 1720s, and one of his companions, a one-legged man, is said to have been the model on whom Stevenson based the character Long John Silver.). .
pieces of eight obsolete Spanish and Spanish-American dollars. And mayhap among the bogs and hills 'tis lonelier than in the gulley.
die a gentleman a gentleman of fortune, a pirate. We left the track to examine a gully to the north, but could not find any water.
dead-eye a round, flat block of wood with three holes in it for a lanyard (short rope or cord), used in pairs on a sailing ship to hold the shrouds and stays (ropes for moving the sails) taut. – Personenbezeichnungen mit festem Genus, „Zum Hirschen“ – Starke und schwache Deklinationsformen.
from your Reading List will also remove any Last edited on Jan 20 2013. Flint's characteristic signature: his initials with a line drawn below them and a knot (clove hitch) drawn on the line. She went on till she came to a dip, or gulley, when a break in the cliff occurred. Gully, in slang, refers to people or things that come “from the gutter” (i.e., the streets).
US - Keep it gully! the gunwale was lipping astern The gunwale (pronounced GUN-ulh) is the upper edge of the side of a boat; water was touching the edge of the jolly-boat's gunwale at the rear (stern).
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