| MAST | A ship's tall pole (4) |
| MASTS | Ship's tall poles |
| FLAG | Billower on a tall pole |
| SPEEDBALL | Sport in which a player uses a racket to hit a ball tethered to a tall pole (9) |
| FOREMAST | The tall pole supporting a sail that is nearest a ship's bow (8) |
| FLAGSTAFF | Tall pole for flying a standard (9) |
| STILT | Clown's tall pole (5) |
| STAFF | Tall pole |
| STILTS | Tall poles with footrests for walking high above the ground (6) |
| BILL | A written statement, such as that attesting to the health of a person or a ship's company; a chit, invoice or tab; a banknote; a beak; or, a poster (4) |
| KNOT | A bond; a burl; an ornament such as an epaulette; or, one of a series of ties on a ship's chip log from which a unit of nautical speed derives (4) |
| RUNG | A ship's floor timber; a spoke of a boat's wheel; or, a step of a ladder (4) |
| BACK | Word for a hinder surface, such as a chair's upright, sometimes splat-bearing, rear; a person's dorsum; a ship's keel; or, a violin's underside (4) |
| CREW | Oarsmen/women and the cox of a racing shell as a team collectively; a ship's company; or, a name sometimes used for the sport of rowing (4) |
| SPAR | Nautical word for a pole supporting a ship's rigging or sails such as a boom, gaff or mast (4) |
| GANG | Word for a set of people or things which go together, such as a ship's crew; a group of labourers, sockets or tools; or, a band of children, criminals or delinquents (4) |
| BULK | Word for the belly, body or trunk; a ship's cargo or hold; a heap of tobacco; a mass generally; the thickness of paper or a book; the greater part; or, dietary fibre/roughage in food (4) |
| JACK | A leather or iron-plated medieval tunic; a ship's flag, smaller than the ensign; a sailor; or, a knave in cards (4) |
| STAY | Guy rope bracing a ships mast; or, part of a corset that was historically constructed from whalebone (4) |
| HAND | Member of a ship's crew; or, a set of cards held by a player (4) |
