We pirates be "good"
What is the press gang?
The raising of a red or "bloody" flag was a piratical practice premeditating problems particularly perturbing to the crews of other ships, as it entailed that they would do this after boarding the opposing ship.
What is giving no quarter?
This yucky wasting disease results in the loss of teeth and reopening of scars, but fortunately is rare in the smaller oceans of the world.
What is scurvy?
This accurately nicknamed pirate is perhaps the most famous of all, captain of the Queen Anne's Revenge and scourge of the seas.
Who is Blackbeard? (Real name Edward Teach)
This be the meaning of the term "picaroon."
What is a scoundrel?
Picaroon is an anglicization of the Spanish word "picarón." Alternate terms include scallywag, rapscallion, or bilge rat
This practice, unexpected given their typical brutality, was the dominant mode of selecting captains and distribution of shares on pirate ships.
What is democracy?
Perhaps unsurprisingly given their 17th and 18th century Atlantic context, the real pirates of the Caribbean very commonly participated in this "business"
What is the transatlantic slave trade?
This metal death cage was used as a form of humiliation and warning, in which executed pirates were displayed to decompose.
This English privateer and explorer, the captain of the second circumnavigation of the globe, is fictionally the ancestor of the protagonist of Uncharted.
Who is Francis Drake?
This term, ultimately derived from an Arawak word for a wooden smoking grill, shifted from referring to isolated hunters to lawless freebooters to all pirates of the Caribbean, including privateers.
What is "buccaneer?"
This English privateer and naturalist provides us with one of our first written accounts of Australian people (albeit not a favorable one) as well as a sophisticated body botanical records and oceanography.
Who is William Dampier?
This English pirate of the Indian Ocean led a pirate flotilla that attacked and brutally plundered a peaceful Mughal fleet as it sailed to take pilgrims on Hajj. The pirates killed, raped, and enslaved over the course of days amidst a fleet carrying thousands of people.
Who is Henry Every?
This painful pirate punishment entails tying a victim to a rope, dropping them in the water and dragging them under the waves on one side of the ship all the way up and out the water on the other side.
What is keelhauling?
These two women pirates among the crew of "Calico" Jack Rackham were duly documented in the dramatic and largely inaccurate general history of pirates that was probably written by Daniel Defoe.
Who are Mary Read and Anne Bonny?
The full title of the book was the following:
"A GENERAL HISTORY OF THE PYRATES, FROM Their first RISE and SETTLEMENT in the Island of Providence, to the present Time. With the remarkable Actions and Adventures of the two Female Pyrates Mary Read and Anne Bonny"
Also, Mary Read, after Anne Bonny tried to put the moves on her, "to the great Disappointment of Anne Bonny, she let her know she was a Woman also."
This symptom of later pirates' staple beverage, grog, received the cutesy nickname "grog blossom."
What are rosy cheeks?
Grog was a diluted form of rum used by the British navy in its sailors' rations. The term came into use after the Golden Age of Piracy had mostly ended, but featured in subsequent literature such as Treasure Island.