brisa (Spanish) breeze.
calambre (Spanish) cramp (muscular).
rapier a slender, two-edged sword with a large, cupped hilt.
scythe a tool with a long, single-edged blade set at an angle on a long, curved handle, used in cutting long grass, grain, and so on, by hand.
Gran Ligas (Spanish) the two main leagues of professional baseball clubs in the U.S., the National League and the American League: also the Major Leagues.
Tigres (Spanish) reference to the Detroit Tigers.
juegos (Spanish) games.
un espuela de hueso a bone spur.
Casablanca seaport in northwest Morocco, on the Atlantic.
Cienfuegos seaport on the south coast of Cuba.
El Campeón (Spanish) The Champion.
masthead the top part of a ship's mast.
dorado (Spanish) gilding or gilt (literally); here a descriptive term for the golden dolphin.
Rigel a supergiant, multiple star, usually the brightest star in the constellation Orion.
dentuso (Spanish) big-toothed; (in Cuba) a particularly voracious and frightening species of shark with rows of large, sharp teeth; here, a descriptive term for the mako shark.
shovel-nosed having a broad, flattened nose, head, or bill.
galanos (Spanish) mottled ones (literally); here a descriptive term for the shovel-nosed sharks.
