Girl on a Whaleship

Glossary

This section of the website explains many terms and phrases you may find in the stories and essays. They are arranged alphabetically. Entries that contain music are "noted" with a .

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A - B
- Absalom Boston
- Aft
- After 'Tween Decks
- Afterhold
- Afterpeak
- Albacore
- Albany
- Aloft
- Alymer Bradford Jernegan
- American Civil War
- American Revolution
- Archipelago
- Aristocrat
- Awhaling
- Azores
- Bail
- Baleen
- Ballad Shanty, "Rolling Down to Old Maui"
- Ballast
- Bark
- Barrel
- Before the Mast
- Bering Strait
- Bible Leaves
- Billethead
- Blackfish
- Blanket Pieces
- Blow Ye Winds
- Blubber
- Blubber Room
- Blue Whale
- Bluff Bow
- Boatheader
- Bow
- Bowhead Whale
- Bowsprit
- Breach
- Buenos Aires
- Bunk Beds
- Busk
C - F
- Calomel
- Cape Horn
- Cape Town
- Cape Verde Islands
- Capstan Shanty
- Captain's Cabin
- Captstan
- Cask
- Chase
- Colt
- Commenced
- Coral Reef
- Cordage
- Corset
- Courtship
- Cutting In
- Deck
- Desertion
- Diagram of a Whale
- Diamond Fish
- Double Reef Topsails
- Drogue
- Entrepreneur
- Falkland Islands
- Fid
- Figurehead
- Five and Forty More
- Flag
- Flannels
- Fo'c'sle Songs
- Fore 'tween Decks
- Forecastle
- Forecastle Companionway
- Forehold
- Foremast
- Forenoon
- Frederick Douglass
G - M
N - S
T - Z
- Tattoo
- Teeth
- Temperance
- Tempest
- Tetanus
- Thar She Blows!
- The Friend
- Tobacco Use
- Toilet Cushion
- Ton
- Tortoiseshell
- Town Ball
- Traditional Music of Nootka Indians, "Whale Song"
- Transom
- Try
- Try Pot
- Tryworks
- Typhoid Fever
- U.S. Consulate
- Valparaiso
- Wallaby
- War of 1812
- Watch
- Water Closet
- Wear Ship
- Whale Migration
- Whaleboat
- Whaleboat Crew
- Widow's Walk
- Windlass
- Windlass Shanty
- Windward
- Worsted
- Yard
- Zanzibar

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Laura Jernegan: Girl on a Whaleship

Glossary

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