[
UK
/bˈɪldʒ/
]
NOUN
- where the sides of the vessel curve in to form the bottom
- water accumulated in the bilge of a ship
VERB
-
take in water at the bilge
the tanker bilged -
cause to leak
the collision bilged the vessel
How To Use bilge In A Sentence
- OOh gosh 20 whole cm women & children first, man the life boats, wind the winches & pump the bilges. Cheeseburger Gothic » This is why the Playboy Mansion sits atop a very high hill.
- The Strategic Counsel is behind this bilious bilgewater? Catapulting the propaganda
- However, water in the bilges, moving between the inner and outer skins as the ship rolled, did create a small amount of air movement in the lower deck cabins.
- After 2000 dead soldiers, we can safely say your ideas suck bilgewater, mate. Think Progress » Bush to hold press conference
- Bilge pumps in recreational boats are only intended to remove normal accumulations of bilge water and sea spray.
- Three times a day the three of them sit down to eat at that table, in that floating house that smells of bilgewater and foot cream and baklava. Memory Wall
- Blaming their own ignorance, they recount how in the past they would pump oil overboard or let oil collect in their boat's bilges.
- It is the responsibility of the government that it bilged the boat of democracy.
- Alien species such as the Mediterranean blue mussel have been introduced through ballast water, bilge water and mariculture operations. Benguela Current large marine ecosystem
- The bilge pumps may have to run for hours and hours, just dealing with rain driven into a supposedly tight boat.