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Slave Dancer Vocabulary
The Shrouds and Bight of Benin
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| halyard | any of various free lines for hoisting a sail |
| lament | to morn deeply |
| aloofness | detatchment, remoteness, disinterest |
| taffrail | the rail around the sten of a vessel |
| tarpaulin | waterproof canvas used to caover and protect things |
| holystoned | scrubbed with a block of sandstone |
| impaled | fastened or staked |
| carronade | a kind of short cannon |
| abated | lessened or diminished |
| missenmast | the 3rd mast from forward in a vessel |
| apparation | spirit, spook, illusion |
| jettison | to cast overboard |
| belaying | causing to stop |
| pyre | a pile of combustibles; fire |
| shrouds | one of a set of ropes stretched from the masthead to the side of a vessel |
| depraved | made evil or corrupt |
| pressgrand | forced into the military |
| recumbent | reclining;lying down |
| pious | putaining to religious devotion, sacred, spiritual |
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