Captains Courageous Chapters 5-7

toward the back of a ship

• aft

• heave

• wallop

to lift, pull, push or throw something with great effort

• wallop

• accordion

• heave

a long rope with many hooks speaced out used to catch fish

• trawl lines

• Gloucester

• Chantey

a town in Massachusetts; the home port of the We're Here.

• Jonah

• Gloucester

• chantey

a musical instrument you squeeze to make sound and play by pressing keys and buttons

• accordion

• chantey

• keen

a sailor's song, especially one sung in rhythm to work

• aft

• keen

• chantey

an expression that meant "anything that would spoil a sailor's luck"

• "jonah"

• wallop

• accordion

a brown powder made from the roasted beans of the cacao tree and used to make chocolate

• cocoa

• accordion

• trawl lines

eager or enthusiastic

• wallop

• keen

• chantey

to hit someone or something very hard

• chantey

• wallop

• heave