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Definitions for bilge
bɪldʒbilge
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Princeton's WordNet
bilge, bilge waternoun
water accumulated in the bilge of a ship
bilgeverb
where the sides of the vessel curve in to form the bottom
bilgeverb
cause to leak
"the collision bilged the vessel"
bilge, take in waterverb
take in water at the bilge
"the tanker bilged"
Wiktionary
bilgenoun
The rounded portion of a ship's hull, forming a transition between the bottom and the sides.
bilgenoun
The lowest inner part of a ship's hull.
bilgenoun
The water accumulated in the bilge, the bilge water.
bilgenoun
Stupid talk or writing; nonsense.
bilgenoun
The bulging part of a barrel or cask.
bilgeverb
To spring a leak in the bilge.
bilgeverb
To bulge or swell.
bilgeverb
To break open the bilge(s) of.
Etymology: A nautical/shipbuilding term, likely derived from bulge.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To Bilgeverb
To spring a leak; to let in water, by striking upon a rock: a sea term. Stephen Skinner.
Etymology: from the noun.
Wikipedia
Bilge
The bilge of a ship or boat is the part of the hull that would rest on the ground if the vessel were unsupported by water. The "turn of the bilge" is the transition from the bottom of a hull to the sides of a hull. Internally, the bilges (usually used in the plural in this context) is the lowest compartment on a ship or seaplane, on either side of the keel and (in a traditional wooden vessel) between the floors.The first known use of the word is from 1513.
ChatGPT
bilge
Bilge refers to the lowest part inside the hull of a ship or boat where water collects, potentially causing uncontrolled movements. It can also refer to pointless talk or activities, or nonsense.
Webster Dictionary
Bilgenoun
the protuberant part of a cask, which is usually in the middle
Bilgenoun
that part of a ship's hull or bottom which is broadest and most nearly flat, and on which she would rest if aground
Bilgenoun
bilge water
Bilgeverb
to suffer a fracture in the bilge; to spring a leak by a fracture in the bilge
Bilgeverb
to bulge
Bilgeverb
to fracture the bilge of, or stave in the bottom of (a ship or other vessel)
Bilgeverb
to cause to bulge
Wikidata
Bilge
The bilge is the lowest compartment on a ship, below the waterline, where the two sides meet at the keel. The word was coined in 1513.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Bilge
bilj, n. the bulging part of a cask: the broadest part of a ship's bottom.—v.i. to spring a leak by a fracture in the bilge, as a ship.—ns. Bilge′-pump; Bilge′-wat′er.—adj. Bilg′y, having the appearance and disagreeable smell of bilge-water. [Most prob. conn. with Bulge.]
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
bilge
That part of the floor in a ship--on either side of the keel--which approaches nearer to a horizontal than to a perpendicular direction, and begins to round upwards. It is where the floors and second futtocks unite, and upon which the ship would rest if laid on the ground; hence, when a ship receives a fracture in this part, she is said to be bilged or bulged.--Bilge is also the largest circumference of a cask, or that which extends round by the bung-hole.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of bilge in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of bilge in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
Examples of bilge in a Sentence
You have no propulsion and you’re not going to have any bilge, you’re not going to have the pump inside the hull to pump water out of the boat, it’s a dead stick, dead in the water.
This is the first time we have charged Clean Water Act crimes for an actual discharge of oil into the EEZ (exclusive economic zone) off the coast of Alaska, as detailed in the court documents, witnesses saw a sheen off the side of the vessel after the chief engineer hooked up a pump to illegally dump oily bilge water overboard.
Nuri Bilge Ceylan is an ocean who is becoming deeper with incredible speed and amazingly clearer by passing the time. He makes ices familiar with sea by showing “Winter Sleep”. Thanks for his existence. “All who love are relatives.”
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