2.3 Vocabulary

 Stanzas - 01 to 04

Guess the meaning of-

Stir-swirl, whirl, rotate (here movement)

Still (adj)-- here,not moving , steady, silent,quiet,calm, stable etc.

Sails- canvas used for mast , strong sheet of fabric attached to a boat.

Keel - base or bottom of ship

Motion –movement

Steady -- stable

Shock - blow, jolt, stunned, unpleasant event

Buoy - floater, drifter, floating object anchored in the sea

Swing (Swung) - swayed, waved

Ring (Rung)-sounded, call for attention by sounding a bell

Mariner-sailor, seamen

Abbot-- head of Abbey of monks

Abbey-- a building where monks or nuns live or used to live

Aberbrothok- largest town in Scotland

Surge's swell--sudden and great rise in the level of the sea

Perilous--dangerous

blest--old English form of blessed

Stanza 05 to 08 

New Words –

Joyance – (Poetic) joy, delight, enjoyment

gay- happy, light hearted and carefree

Wheel's round-- whirling over the sea, soaring

Joyance-- screaming in joy, delight

Speck – dot, spot, point, mark

Sir Ralph the Rover – a sea pirate

Pirate- a person who attacks and Rob’s ships at the sea.

Deck – flooring of a ship, boarding place in a ship, the upper floor of the 

sea

The darker speck – here metaphorically used for the Inchcape Bell

Cheering – encouraging, motivating, soothing , delighted

Mirthful – joyful, merry, gleeful, overjoyed, amusing

Wickedness – evil, malice, badness, being immoral

Inchcape float – means the buoy (floater)

Quoth – archaic word for quoted (said/spoke)

Row – oared to, sailed to, rowing by oars in waters

Plague – torture, torment, cause trouble, kill, destroy

Spring- name of one of the seasons

float-a thing that is buoyant in waterwat

Stanza 09 to 12

Vocabulary

Sunk- past participle form of sink, submerged, go down

gurgling-bubbling, make a hallow sound

burst-apart suddenly and violently

Scour'd-(here) travelled freely, energetically for ships to rob

Plunder'd store-big amount of looted/robbed wealth

Steers- directs the course of the ship, guide

haze-thin mist, fog

hath-(an archaic word)has

gale- a very strong wind

Stanza no.13 to 17

Vocabulary

dawn-(here)moon will appear, the first appearance of light in the sky before sunrise

Canst-can, an archaic word for you can

breakers-(here) heavy sea waves

Methinks- it seems to me (archaic form of 'I think')

Swell- (here) Tide

drift- move slowly, be carried slowly by a current of air or water

Vessel- large boat, ship

Strikes-hits forcibly

tore- pulled hard

despair- frustration, absence of hope

beneath- under

dreadful- extremely bad or serious

Devil- the supreme spirit of evil, Satan, demon

Knell-the sound of a bell solemnly after death or at funeral announcement of death