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bilges
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Word definitions for bilges in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
bilges \bil"ges\ n. in a vessel with two hulls, an enclosed area between the frames at each side.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (plural of bilge English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: bilge )
Usage examples of bilges.
With the south-east wind now astern she was transformed, lighter and more limber, even with sails reefed and with three feet of water in her bilges.
I want no fanatic opening the bilges to the sea before we can even make sail!
He saw the way the deck was leaning over, showing the bilges above the leaping spray, and knew Herrick could not lash the tiller for the final, and most dangerous, part of the journey.
Cochrane went on, "you smoke out its bilges, you put rat poison down, you know the ship's clean when you launch it, but your first night out you hear the scratch of claws and you know the little bastards are there!
The leather pump hoses, snaking down into the Espiritu Santo's bilges, thrashed and spurted with the efforts of the men on the big oak handles.
The carpenters sounded the bilges again and reported that the hull timbers had been rotten.
The men who were not pumping formed a bucket chain, desperately scooping water out of the dark flooding bilges.
The rats, sensing the disaster that was' going to overtake the ship, had long abandoned the bilges to run about the gundeck and cause screams from the women and children in the passengers' quarters.
There was plenty of strongly salted meat, but finding it in the dark, slopping water that still churned about the bilges was increasingly hard.
The O'Higgins also sent food, water and two portable pumps that were lowered into the Espiritu Santa's bilges.
Such huge roundshot, slamming into the decks and crashing on through the hull to thump through a boat's bilges, could sink a ship in minutes.
The pumps had stopped, and Sharpe could hear the gurgle of water slopping into the bilges.
Even from his seat at the masthead Hal could hear the pumps labouring in both vessels to lower the bilges.
The reek of pepper and bilges was stifling, and the space so confined that all five could not stretch out at the same time on the deck.
No man could stand unsupported upon the open deck, so Llewellyn could not order them to man the main pumps, but on the gundeck teams of seamen worked in a frenzy at the auxiliary pumps to try to clear the six feet of water in her bilges.