Spanish Main Spanish colonies in the Americas, stretching from Panama to the Orinoco River and including the Carribean sea. Splice the mainbrace To have a drink. Or, perhaps, several drinks. Spyglass A telescope. Starboard The right side of the ship when you are facing toward her prow. Strait A narrow stretch of water between areas of land.		Sutler A merchant in port, selling the various things that a ship needed for supplies and repairs. Swab A disrespectful term for a seaman. "Man that gun, ye cowardly swabs!" Walk the plank A piratical execution. The victim, usually blindfolded or with bound hands or both, is forced to walk along a plank laid over the ship's side, to fall into the water below. Except this seems to be a total invention; it first appeared in 19th-century fiction, long after the great days of piracy.