Crossword clues for bilge
bilge
- Boat bottom
- Nautical nonsense
- Ship's seepage locale
- Place for stagnant water
- Unwelcome water on a cruise ship
- Seepage at sea
- Hull bottom
- Ship's wastewater
- Nonsense (informal)
- Lower part of a hull
- Inner hull bottom
- Hull's low point
- Hull section
- Dirty water in a ship's bottom
- Worthless output
- Utter rot
- Unwanted water on a ship
- Stuff in leaky ships
- Stale remarks
- Ship's waste water
- Ship's lower hull
- Ship's lower area
- Ship's filth
- Ship's bottom area
- Ship section with a pump
- Ship drainage area
- Naval hogwash
- Lower exterior part of a ship's hull
- Leakage in a luxury liner
- Hull's compartment
- Hull region
- Hull locale
- Dirty water in bottom of boat — drivel — nonsense
- Unwelcome water on a ship
- Part of a hull
- Absolute nonsense
- Foolish talk
- Nonsense, slangily
- Worthless talk, in slang
- Baloney
- Hogwash
- Where the sides of the vessel curve in to form the bottom
- Cask's widest part
- Hull area
- Hull's lowest point
- Poppycock
- Hull part
- Lower part of a ship's hold
- Widest part of a cask
- Tommyrot
- Ship's area
- Ship part that often gets watery
- Verbal rubbish
- Drivel
- Gimble freely, no head for mimsy nonsense
- Anger about the start of Germany’s nonsense
- Echo after blowback of gassy hot air
- Nonsense, say, Liberal brought up
- Rubbish left in large one, ultimately
- Rubbish government consumed by nastiness
- Promoting English with plausible nonsense
- Bottom of ship’s bunk
- Bitterness about head of Government is rubbish
- Anger about Government's rubbish
- Utter nonsense
- Kind of water
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bilge \Bilge\ (b[i^]lj), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Bilged (b[i^]ljd); p. pr. & vb. n. Bilging.]
(Naut.) To suffer a fracture in the bilge; to spring a leak by a fracture in the bilge.
To bulge.
Bilge \Bilge\, v. t.
(Naut.) To fracture the bilge of, or stave in the bottom of (a ship or other vessel).
To cause to bulge.
Bilge \Bilge\, n. [A different orthography of bulge, of same origin as belly. Cf. Belly, Bulge.]
The protuberant part of a cask, which is usually in the middle.
(Naut.) That part of a ship's hull or bottom which is broadest and most nearly flat, and on which she would rest if aground.
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Bilge water.
Bilge free (Naut.), stowed in such a way that the bilge is clear of everything; -- said of a cask.
Bilge pump, a pump to draw the bilge water from the gold of a ship.
Bilge water (Naut.), water which collects in the bilge or bottom of a ship or other vessel. It is often allowed to remain till it becomes very offensive.
Bilge ways, the timbers which support the cradle of a ship upon the ways, and which slide upon the launching ways in launching the vessel.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1510s, "lowest internal part of a ship," also used of the foulness which collects there; variant of bulge "ship's hull," also "leather bag," from Old North French boulge "leather sack," from Late Latin bulga "leather sack," apparently from Gaulish bulga (see budget (n.)).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context nautical English) The rounded portion of a ship's hull, forming a transition between the bottom and the sides. 2 (context nautical English) The lowest inner part of a ship's hull, where water accumulates. 3 (context uncountable English) The water accumulated in the bilge, the bilge water. 4 (context slang uncountable English) Stupid talk or writing; nonsense. 5 The bulging part of a barrel or cask. vb. 1 (context nautical intransitive English) To spring a leak in the bilge. 2 (context intransitive English) To bulge or swell. 3 (context nautical transitive English) To break open the bilge(s) of.
WordNet
n. water accumulated in the bilge of a ship [syn: bilge water]
where the sides of the vessel curve in to form the bottom
v. cause to leak; "the collision bilged the vessel"
take in water at the bilge; "the tanker bilged" [syn: take in water]
Wikipedia
Bilge is a Turkish name. As is the case with many Turkic names, is a unisex name. Even in today's Turkey, Bilge continues to be adopted as both a male and female name.
It may refer to:
The bilge is the lowest compartment on a ship.
Bilge may also refer to:
- Bilge, Mardin, a Turkish village
- Bilge (name), people with the name
Usage examples of "bilge".
The explosion blew apart what had been left of the superstructure, taking with it the masts and antennae as the ship erupted into flames amidships, the fire migrating aft to the fuel tanks, where ruptured fuel lines spewed volatile fuel for the gas turbines into the bilges.
A word, a heave in unison, and the albacore lay gasping in the bilges -- a magnificent fish of a hundred pounds or more.
The assistant to the surgeon-superintendent, whether at the behest of his master or by his own decision, came to conclude that the becalming of the vessel and the invasion of the pestilence from the cracks and the bilges, which had in itself a biblical connotation as if one of the plagues upon Egypt, had come about because of the blasphemy of the whores on board.
All this great ever-increasing flood of bronze, brass, chrome, Fiberglas, lapstreak, teak, auto pilots, burgees, Power Squadron hats, nylon line, all this chugging winking blundering glitter of props, bilge pumps and self-importance needs dockside space.
The leak had dumped one coolant loop of highly radioactive water to the reactor compartment bilges.
All the time the ship had been driving toward the polynya the starboard reactor main-coolant cutout-valves had been leaking and dumping the radioactive coolant into the reactor-compartment bilges.
The smell of cooking grease, some foul egestion wafting aloft from the bilges, the fug of damp wool and unwashed bod- ies was fit to make him gag, but he forbore manfully.
The formaldehyde with which Turner had fumigated the ship clung here tenaciously, and, mixed with the odors of bilge water and the indescribable heavy smells left by tropical cargoes, made me dizzy and ill.
Reiver flipped backward against the mast, Amber jounced off her tiny perch in the stern to sprawl in the bilge, and Hakiim lost his kaffiyeh in the water.
To get at them, one would have to unload the ship entirely, pump out the unspeakable contents of the bilge, shovel out tons of shingle, and winch up the massive pigs of kentledge, one by one.
Bilger wanted the Sunday School chairs for the Eastern Star banquet on the same night that Lida Kronk had promised them to the Modern Woodmen of which her Claude was the Chief Axe-Swinger, or whatever it was.
The Palestinian organizer of the voyage, Avram Rabinovitz, had dug the chairs out of the bilges, mildewy and rat-chewed but serviceable.
Now there was a delicious chill and more than a hint of dampness which brought out the smell of things, whether stinking or mildewy clothes, the sickly-sweet of the bilges or the clean tang of fresh, hot coffee.
The bilges also capture any water from flooding so that it can be pumped out before it rises above the lower level deck to damage equipment.
The motor was reconditioned, the boat was recaulked and a bilge pump was installed.