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n. (bilge pump English)
Usage examples of "bilge pumps".
After the bilge pumps kicked in and the boat stabilized, they turned their searchlights on it: they'd been run down by the conning tower of a British nuclear submarine.
The bilge pumps had been running at full capacity since they left the harbor, but the old Plain Jane had no well meter.
Inside the Paragon would be other men, ready to man the bilge pumps continuously.
The stolen objects included pieces of timbers, bilge pumps, cannonballs, musket ammunition, and assorted brass and leather items.
They appeared to ignore the corrosion and the constantly running bilge pumps that strained to carry off the heavy leakage during the voyage.
The boatshed had been a hive of activity, with shipwrights and sailors working against time to rig extra bilge pumps and fit iron crutches along the bulwarks so that it could be manhandled by long sweeps when required.
If the ship had closed up its seams, if they could keep the bilge pumps going, if the storm grew no more violent, they would live.
Then they got to work crewing the bilge pumps, hosing down the blood-red decks, mending more canvas, caulking the warped hull and bulkhead planks, repairing splintered masts, untangling lines, and sailing the ship.
Even the stoutest ships are not built to resist tsunamis, and all along the line hull plates were sprung and water flooded engine rooms while bilge pumps worked frantically against the rising tide.
Mostly there were generators maintaining the batteries, and a few bilge pumps.