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Bilges

noun
1.
In a vessel with two hulls, an enclosed area between the frames at each side.


Bilge

noun
1.
Water accumulated in the bilge of a ship.  Synonym: bilge water.
2.
Where the sides of the vessel curve in to form the bottom.
verb
(past & past part. bilged; pres. part. bilging)
1.
Cause to leak.
2.
Take in water at the bilge.  Synonym: take in water.



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"Bilges" Quotes from Famous Books



... iron decks, bilges choked with coal; Flayed and frozen foot and hand, sick of heart and soul; Last we prayed she'd buck herself into judgment Day— Hi! we cursed the ...
— Departmental Ditties and Barrack Room Ballads • Rudyard Kipling
... sunset, however, so magnificent a prey came within my radius of action that I could not possibly refuse her. No sailor could fail to recognize that glorious monarch of the sea, with her four cream funnels tipped with black, her huge black sides, her red bilges, and her high white top-hamper, roaring up Channel at twenty-three knots, and carrying her forty-five thousand tons as lightly as if she were a five-ton motor- boat. It was the queenly Olympic, of the White Star—once the largest and still the comeliest of liners. What a picture she ...
— Danger! and Other Stories • Arthur Conan Doyle


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