rolclass="underline" a side-to-side motion of the ship, usual y caused by waves.
schooner: a North American (colonial) vessel with two masts the same size.
scuppers: Drain holes on deck, in the toe rail, or in bulwarks.
scuttle: any small, generally covered hatchway through a ship's deck.
sextant: a navigational instrument used to determine the vertical position of an object such as the sun, moon or stars.
shoaclass="underline" shallow, not deep.
shrouds: heavy ropes leading from a masthead aft and down to support the mast when the wind is from abeam or farther aft.
skiff: a small boat.
sky lark: to frolic or play, especial y up in the rigging.
spar: any lumber/pole used in rigging sails on a ship.
starboard: the right side of a ship or boat.
stern: the aft part of a boat or ship.
stern chasers: cannons directed aft to fire on a pursuing vessel.
tack: to turn a ship about from one tack to another, by bringing her head to the wind.
taffraiclass="underline" the upper part of the ship's stern, usual y ornament with carved work or bolding.
thwart: seat or bench in a boat on which the rowers sit.
topgallant: the mast above the topmast, also sometimes the yard and sail set on it.
transom: the stern cross-section/panel forming the after end of a ship's hul.
veer: a shifting of the wind direction.
waister: landsman or unskilled seaman who worked in the waist of the ship.
wear: to turn the vessel from one tack to another by turning the stern through the wind.
weigh: to raise, as in to weigh anchor.
windward: the side or direction from which the wind is blowing.
yard: a spar attached to the mast and used to hoist sails.
yard arm: the end of a yard.
yawclass="underline" a two-masted sailboat/fishing boat with the shorter mizzen mast placed aft of the rudder post. Similar to a ketch.
zephyr: a gentle breeze. The west wind.