Bilge

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Nautical The rounded portion of a ship's hull, forming a transition between the bottom and the sides.
  • n. Nautical The lowest inner part of a ship's hull.
  • n. Bilge water.
  • n. Slang Stupid talk or writing; nonsense.
  • n. The bulging part of a barrel or cask.
  • verb-intransitive. Nautical To spring a leak in the bilge.
  • verb-intransitive. To bulge or swell.
  • v. Nautical To break open the bilge of.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The rounded portion of a ship's hull, forming a transition between the bottom and the sides.
  • n. The lowest inner part of a ship's hull.
  • n. The water accumulated in the bilge, the bilge water.
  • n. Stupid talk or writing; nonsense.
  • n. The bulging part of a barrel or cask.
  • v. To spring a leak in the bilge.
  • v. To bulge or swell.
  • v. To break open the bilge(s) of.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The protuberant part of a cask, which is usually in the middle.
  • n. That part of a ship's hull or bottom which is broadest and most nearly flat, and on which she would rest if aground.
  • n. Bilge water.
  • verb-intransitive. To suffer a fracture in the bilge; to spring a leak by a fracture in the bilge.
  • verb-intransitive. To bulge.
  • v. To fracture the bilge of, or stave in the bottom of (a ship or other vessel).
  • v. To cause to bulge.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The wider part or belly of a cask, which is usually in the middle.
  • n. The breadth of a ship's bottom, or that part of her floor which approaches a horizontal direction, and on which she would rest if aground.
  • Nautical, to suffer a fracture in the bilge; spring a leak by a fracture in the bilge.
  • To bulge or swell out.
  • To break or stave in (the bilge or bottom of a ship).
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. take in water at the bilge
  • n. water accumulated in the bilge of a ship
  • n. where the sides of the vessel curve in to form the bottom
  • v. cause to leak
    • Verb Form
    bilged    bilges    bilging   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    leak    water    h2o    damage   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    bulge    protuberancy   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    holy water    garboard    putrescence    smeller    positive-displacement   
     
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