A small flat-bottomed boat with pointed or somewhat pointed ends, used for fishing both offshore and on rivers.
Any of several different families of large-eyed, silvery, deep-bodied, laterally compressed, and roughly discoid marine fish.
A wooden pike or spear about three metres (ten feet) in length with a flat, leaf-shaped iron spearhead and a bronze butt-spike (called a sauroter), which was the main weapon of hoplites in Ancient Greece. It was usually not thrown but rather thrust at opponents with one hand.
A dockyard worker.
A fellow sailor; often used affectedly, especially when portraying a pirate.
Sociable or friendly.