Bligh
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9.1
- proper noun
- Do me a favour, Captain Bligh.
- Bligh Reef
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Watch on YouTubeAnd so to the Admiralty commissioned William Bligh to take the ship Bounty to Tahiti to collect breadfruit saplings to be transported to the West Indies.
- And so to the Admiralty commissioned William Bligh to take the ship Bounty to Tahiti to collect breadfruit saplings to be transported to the West Indies.
Examples
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Captain Bligh, sir!
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The man will tell Captain Bligh you can't be found.
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We're trying to establish, Mr Bligh, how you came to lose your ship.
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- Yeah, so was Captain Bligh.
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Lieutenant Bligh, I have your log here before me.
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I've been there with Captain Bligh.
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Mary thinks of Commander Bligh and the Bounty.
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Aye, aye, Captain Bligh.
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And so to the Admiralty commissioned William Bligh to take the ship Bounty to Tahiti to collect breadfruit saplings to be transported to the West Indies.
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The only known oil portrait of Captain Bligh will be auctioned today at Sotheby's.
Synonyms
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8.9
A British naval officer who survived after his crew set him adrift from the Bounty
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7.7
A British naval officer who was captain of the ship Bounty during a crew revolt in 1789
Surface Forms
Etymology
Bligh is the family name of William Bligh, the British captain of the ship HMS Bounty. He was at the centre of a famous mutiny and then made a long open-boat voyage to Timor, so Bligh often makes people think of that dramatic sea story.