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• Ahab, Captain
  1. a character in the book MOBY-DICK by Herman Melville. Captain Ahab risks his life and the lives of everyone on his ship by hunting a large dangerous white WHALE called MOBY-DICK. Ahab is determined to kill the WHALE, but it finally sinks his ship, killing him and most of his men.
• Bligh, Captain William
  1. (1754-?1817) an officer in the British navy who was in command of the ship HMS BOUNTY . Bligh was unpopular because he was a strict leader, so the men on his ship took power from him, and made him leave in a small boat.
• Captain Bligh (noun)
  1. 1754-1817 british admiral; was captain of the H.M.S. Bounty in 1789 when part of the crew mutinied and set him afloat in an open boat; a few weeks later he arrived safely in Timor 4,000 miles away
• Captain Bob (noun)
  1. 1875-1946 explorer who accompanied Peary's expedition to the North Pole and who led many other Arctic trips
• Captain Cook
• Captain Hicks (noun)
  1. the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one
• Captain Hook
  1. an evil PIRATE (= someone who sails on the sea, attacking other ships and stealing from them) who has a metal hook in place of one of his hands, and who is the enemy of PETER PAN in the play and book PETER PAN by J. M. BARRIE
• Captain Horatio Hornblower (noun)
  1. a fictional English admiral during the Napoleonic Wars in novels written by C. S. Forester
• Captain James Cook (noun)
  1. 1728-1779 english navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands
• Captain John Smith (noun)
  1. 1580-1631 english explorer who helped found the colony at Jamestown, Virginia; was said to have been saved by Pocahontas
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