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What (who) is Bilge - definition
LOWEST COMPARTMENT ON A SHIP OR SEAPLANE
Bilge water; Bilge-water; Bilgewater; Bilge dumping; Bilge rat
bilge
(bilges)
The bilge or the bilges are the flat bottom part of a ship or boat.
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bilge
¦ noun
1. the area on the outer surface of a ship's hull where the bottom curves to meet the vertical sides.
(bilges) the lowest internal portion of the hull.
(also bilge water) dirty water that collects inside the bilges.
2. informal nonsense; rubbish.
¦ verb archaic break a hole in the bilge of (a ship).
Origin
C15: prob. a var. of bulge.
Bilge
·noun Bilge water.
II. Bilge ·vt To cause to bulge.
III. Bilge ·vi To Bulge.
IV. Bilge ·noun The protuberant part of a cask, which is usually in the middle.
V. Bilge ·vt To fracture the bilge of, or stave in the bottom of (a ship or other vessel).
VI. Bilge ·vi To suffer a fracture in the bilge; to spring a leak by a fracture in the bilge.
VII. Bilge ·noun That part of a ship's hull or bottom which is broadest and most nearly flat, and on which she would rest if aground.
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.
Pronunciation examples for Bilge
1. Search every cabin, every hold,
down to the bilges.
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
2. no less. Depressing people; drooling like bilge down the plate glass window at the Cactus
Boyle _ Talks at Google
Examples of use of Bilge
1. The penalty now of listening to Maradonas bilge is too high for South America to pay.
2. One of the youngest aðas, Muzaffer Bilge the son of the world and Olympic wrestling champion Gazanfer Bilge, took responsibility in the name of his father in 1'66 while he was only 11–years–old when his father fell ill.
3. Clinton promptly resorted to the sort of bilge that the adjective "Clintonian" was created to denote.
4. Please let us hear no more bilge about communities; there is no such thing as community.
5. An even larger volume of oil–contaminated bilge waste was also discharged with a rubber hose and portable pump.