Blackbeard
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- proper noun
- /ˈblækˌbɪrd/
- Anyone that survived Blackbeard's attack, is in the mine by now.
- the infamous pirate Blackbeard
- Blackbeard's treasure
- Blackbeard's ship
Examples
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I am truly the daughter of Blackbeard.
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The man they call Blackbeard!
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I only helped Blackbeard do what any father should have done.
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I am the master of me ship, not Blackbeard.
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You were lying in wait, for Blackbeard.
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But Blackbeard didn't tell you the whole truth either.
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One lively tale holds that Blackbeard buried gold on Money Island.
Blog text (21) -
Flouting colonial law, he sent a naval task force to North Carolina with orders to take Blackbeard dead or alive.
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Blackbeard the pirate once owned a house there, and his ship, Queen Anne's Revenge, is supposedly buried somewhere in the sand just offshore.
Fiction book (2000) -
Many stories about Blackbeard, the infamous pirate, continue to captivate audiences today.
Synonyms
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An English pirate called Blackbeard who sailed the Caribbean
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Blackbeard comes from the words black and beard, literally 'black beard'. Edward Teach had a wild, dark beard and even tied slow-burning fuses into it to frighten enemies, so the name became his famous pirate nickname.