Bilge

[bɪldʒ]

Definition

(noun.) where the sides of the vessel curve in to form the bottom.

(noun.) water accumulated in the bilge of a ship.

(verb.) take in water at the bilge; 'the tanker bilged'.

(verb.) cause to leak; 'the collision bilged the vessel'.

Editor: Ned--From WordNet

Definition

(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.

(v. i.) To suffer a fracture in the bilge; to spring a leak by a fracture in the bilge.

(v. i.) To bulge.

(v. t.) To fracture the bilge of, or stave in the bottom of (a ship or other vessel).

(v. t.) To cause to bulge.

Checker: Wade

Definition

n. the bulging part of a cask: the broadest part of a ship's bottom.—v.i. to spring a leak by a fracture in the bilge as a ship.—ns. Bilge′-pump; Bilge′-wat′er.—adj. Bilg′y having the appearance and disagreeable smell of bilge-water.

Edited by Christine