Explore a crossword featuring obsolete shipping jargons once common in maritime trade and navigation.
Vanished Voices of Nautical Trade
A crossword exploring obsolete shipping terms that once dominated maritime commerce.
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- 1. Pointed part of the ship's bow cutting through water
- 3. Mechanical device for hoisting anchors and cables
- 4. Diluted rum once issued to sailors
- 5. Device or timber securing rigging or cargo
- 9. Annual publication used to predict tides and navigation
- 10. Old term for protective ship buffers
- 12. Old term for slack or loose rope
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- 2. Spar used to extend the upper edge of a fore-and-aft sail
- 6. Boat designed for narrow canals, now mostly historical
- 7. A ship’s provision storekeeper or tradesman
- 8. Beam on a ship’s bow for raising the anchor
- 11. Small rope ladder on a ship’s mast rigging
- 13. Small sailing craft used in old coastal trade
- 14. Raised deck at the stern of a ship
- 15. Row of planks forming part of a ship’s hull
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