bilge

Speech parts

1. bilge - Noun

2. bilge - Verb

Meaning

The protuberant part of a cask, which is usually in the middle.

That part of a ship's hull or bottom which is broadest and most nearly flat, and on which she would rest if aground.

Bilge water.

To suffer a fracture in the bilge; to spring a leak by a fracture in the bilge.

To bulge.

To fracture the bilge of, or stave in the bottom of (a ship or other vessel).

To cause to bulge.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

take in water bilge water burl bosh pap tosh blarney chine bulla buncombe hold bull sewerage jabberwocky jive
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Antonyms

fact experience sense prudence intelligence logic
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Hypernyms

water damage bottom leak underside H2O

Hyponyms

bilges

Related terms

bilgewater bilge pump bilge keel bilge water

Phrases with the word

bilge pumps bilge-free bilge pump room in the bilge

Derivatives

bilged bilging

Anagrams

gibel blige

Examples

the tanker bilged Source: Internet

the collision bilged the vessel Source: Internet

A forklift driver was tipping a 22-foot center console fishing boat to drain water from the bilge before taking it to the service building. Source: Internet

Any water seeping into the tank's hull could be expelled by an internal bilge pump. Source: Internet

However, bilge water may be bailed out." Source: Internet

In the winter of 1897–1898 she was put in drydock where bilge keels were installed to improve her stability. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

bilestone bilete bilevel bilge keel bilge pump bilge pump room