A crossword exploring historic and obsolete maritime commands once vital to sailors and captains.
Echoes of Forgotten Nautical Orders
A crossword exploring archaic maritime commands once vital for sailing ships but now largely obsolete.
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- 1. Act of securing a line or stopping an order
- 3. Old order to call crew to duty
- 5. To throw or pull with effort
- 6. Old command meaning to lower sails
- 8. Rope for raising or lowering sails
- 10. To reduce sail area
- 13. Stop or cease (nautical command)
- 17. Motion of the ship through the water
Down
- 2. To tie or secure with rope
- 4. To abruptly stop the rope
- 7. To secure a rope or stop an order
- 9. Obsolete term for a type of anchor cable
- 11. Nickname for a swift sailing ship
- 12. Outer end of a ship's yard where commands were often issued
- 14. Towards the front of a ship
- 15. To change a ship's direction by turning the bow
- 16. To pack or arrange gear aboard
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