Definitions for bilge

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Spelling: [bilj]

IPA: /bɪldʒ/

Bilge is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 51 anagrams from letters in bilge (begil).

Definitions for bilge

noun

1. Nautical. either of the rounded areas that form the transition between the bottom and the sides on the exterior of a hull. Also, bilges. (in a hull with a double bottom) an enclosed area between frames at each side of the floors, where seepage collects. Also called bilge well. a well into which seepage drains to be pumped away. Also called bilge water. seepage accumulated in bilges.
2. Slang. bilge water (def 2).
3. the widest circumference or belly of a cask.

verb (used with object)

1. Nautical. to damage (a hull bottom) so as to create an entry for seawater.

verb (used without object)

1. Nautical. to leak in the bilge. (of white paint) to turn yellow.
2. to bulge or swell out.

Origin of bilge

First recorded in 1505-15; perhaps variant of bulge

Examples for bilge

In the place where it can be used when most wanted—the bilge.

She was 26' long, 9' deep, and fitted with centre and bilge keels.

Mayo trod carefully down the bilge and clasped the mate's hand.

Your gas is in the bottom of the boat, along with the bilge water.

The arrangement for baling out the bilge water is extremely laborious.

This not only is liable to bilge her, but makes it far more difficult to get her off.

“There are worse smells than bilge water,” replied the captain.

Well, he's dead now, he is—as dead as bilge; and who's to sail this ship, I don't see.

Not that I was one who craved for wrack and bilge at my nose all the time.

One pump is no longer quite enough to keep the water in the bilge.