Bligh

[blahy]

noun

1. William, 1754–1817, British naval officer: captain of H.M.S. Bounty, the crew of which mutinied 1789.

Bligh

/ blaɪ /

noun

1. William . 1754–1817, British admiral; Governor of New South Wales (1806–9), deposed by the New South Wales Corps: as a captain, commander of H.M.S. Bounty when the crew mutinied in 1789

Example Sentences

The Ashes is a love story, the urn presented as a gift of affection from Florence Murphy to England captain Ivo Bligh in 1883.

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When England toured Australia later that year, captain Ivo Bligh was given a small terracotta urn purported to contain the ashes of a burnt wooden bail.

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Three searches were carried out in the Bligh's Lane area on Thursday afternoon as part of an ongoing terrorism investigation.

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Bligh made it back to Britain in one piece.

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Certainly Charles Laughton is at his best in a relentless portrait of the inflexible Capt. Bligh.

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