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bilge

(bĭlj)

1. Nautical

a. The rounded portion of a ship's hull, forming a transition between the bottom and the sides.

b. The lowest inner part of a ship's hull.

2. Bilge water.

3. Slang Stupid talk or writing; nonsense.

4. The bulging part of a barrel or cask.

v. bilged, bilg·ing, bilg·es

v.intr.

1. Nautical To spring a leak in the bilge.

2. To bulge or swell.

v.tr.

Nautical To break open the bilge of.

[Probably alteration of bulge.]

bilg′y adj.

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bilge

(bɪldʒ)

1. (Nautical Terms) nautical the parts of a vessel's hull where the vertical sides curve inwards to form the bottom

2. (Nautical Terms) (often plural) the parts of a vessel between the lowermost floorboards and the bottom

3. (Nautical Terms) Also called: bilgewater the dirty water that collects in a vessel's bilge

4. informal silly rubbish; nonsense

5. (Brewing) the widest part of the belly of a barrel or cask

6. (Nautical Terms) (intr) nautical (of a vessel) to take in water at the bilge

7. (Nautical Terms) (tr) nautical to damage (a vessel) in the bilge, causing it to leak

[C16: probably a variant of bulge]

ˈbilgy adj

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bilge

(bɪldʒ)

n., v. bilged, bilg•ing. n.

a. either of the rounded areas that form the transition between the bottom and the sides on the exterior of a hull.

b. Also, bilges. an enclosed area at the bottom of a vessel where seepage collects.

2. Also called bilge water. seepage accumulated in bilges.

3. Slang. foolish or worthless talk or ideas; nonsense.

4. the widest circumference or belly of a cask.

v.i.

5. to leak in the bilge.

[1505–15; perhaps alter. of bulge]

bilge

- Can mean "nonsense, rubbish."

bilge

Past participle: bilged
Gerund: bilging

Imperative
bilge
bilge

Present
I bilge
you bilge
he/she/it bilges
we bilge
you bilge
they bilge

Preterite
I bilged
you bilged
he/she/it bilged
we bilged
you bilged
they bilged

Present Continuous
I am bilging
you are bilging
he/she/it is bilging
we are bilging
you are bilging
they are bilging

Present Perfect
I have bilged
you have bilged
he/she/it has bilged
we have bilged
you have bilged
they have bilged

Past Continuous
I was bilging
you were bilging
he/she/it was bilging
we were bilging
you were bilging
they were bilging

Past Perfect
I had bilged
you had bilged
he/she/it had bilged
we had bilged
you had bilged
they had bilged

Future
I will bilge
you will bilge
he/she/it will bilge
we will bilge
you will bilge
they will bilge

Future Perfect
I will have bilged
you will have bilged
he/she/it will have bilged
we will have bilged
you will have bilged
they will have bilged

Future Continuous
I will be bilging
you will be bilging
he/she/it will be bilging
we will be bilging
you will be bilging
they will be bilging

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been bilging
you have been bilging
he/she/it has been bilging
we have been bilging
you have been bilging
they have been bilging

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been bilging
you will have been bilging
he/she/it will have been bilging
we will have been bilging
you will have been bilging
they will have been bilging

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been bilging
you had been bilging
he/she/it had been bilging
we had been bilging
you had been bilging
they had been bilging

Conditional
I would bilge
you would bilge
he/she/it would bilge
we would bilge
you would bilge
they would bilge

Past Conditional
I would have bilged
you would have bilged
he/she/it would have bilged
we would have bilged
you would have bilged
they would have bilged

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Noun	1.	bilge - water accumulated in the bilge of a ship bilge water H2O, water - binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent
	2.	bilge - where the sides of the vessel curve in to form the bottom bilges - in a vessel with two hulls, an enclosed area between the frames at each side vessel, watercraft - a craft designed for water transportation bottom, underside, undersurface - the lower side of anything
Verb	1.	bilge - cause to leak; "the collision bilged the vessel" damage - inflict damage upon; "The snow damaged the roof"; "She damaged the car when she hit the tree"
	2.	bilge - take in water at the bilge; "the tanker bilged" take in water leak - have an opening that allows light or substances to enter or go out; "The container leaked gasoline"; "the roof leaks badly"

bilge

noun trash, rubbish, rot, garbage (informal), tosh (slang, chiefly Brit.), trivia, drivel, twaddle, tripe (informal), dross, moonshine, hogwash, bunkum or buncombe (chiefly U.S.) I supported the family by writing bilge for women's magazines.

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bilge

noun

Slang. Something that does not have or make sense:

balderdash, blather, bunkum, claptrap, drivel, garbage, idiocy, nonsense, piffle, poppycock, rigmarole, rubbish, tomfoolery, trash, twaddle.

Informal: tommyrot.

Slang: applesauce, baloney, bull, bunk, crap, hooey, malarkey.

Translations

Bilge

sentina discorsi senza senso scemenze

bilge

[bɪldʒ]

A. N

1. (Naut) → pantoque m (also bilge water) → aguas fpl de pantoque

2. (= nonsense) → tonterías fpl

B. CPD bilge pump N (Naut) → bomba f de achique
bilge water N → aguas fpl de pantoque

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bilge

[ˈbɪldʒ] n

[ship] → fond m de cale

bilge

(Naut) → Bilge f

(also bilge water) → Leckwasser nt

(of cask) → (Fass)bauch m

(Brit inf: = nonsense) → Quatsch m (inf), → Mumpitz m (dated inf); to talk bilge → Unsinn verzapfen (inf)

(Sch sl, = biology) → Bio no art (Sch inf)

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bilge

[bɪldʒ] n

a. (Naut) → sentina (also bilge water) → acqua di sentina

b. (fam) (nonsense) → idiozie fpl, cretinate fpl

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On his knees, he bored through the head of the first cask until the water rushed out upon the deck and flowed down into the bilge. He worked quickly, boring cask after cask down the alleyway that led to deeper twilight.

a ship of fools!" Dag Daughtry exulted; repeating what he had expressed in the hold, as he bored the last barrel, listened to the good water gurgling away into the bilge, and chuckled over his discovery of the Ancient Mariner on the same lay as his own.

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"It ain't no use talkin'; bein' brothers to a rich dead man and representatives of furrin heirs that's got left is the line for you and me, Bilge. Thish yer comes of trust'n to Providence.

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"All right then; limpid, salubrious: no gush of bilge water had turned it to fetid puddle.

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Notwithstanding that its walls were blotched, as if missionary maps were bursting out of them to impart geographical knowledge; notwithstanding that its weird furniture was forlornly faded and musty, and that the prevailing Venetian odour of bilge water and an ebb tide on a weedy shore was very strong; the place was better within, than it promised.

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The inner skin of the gas-tanks comes down to within a foot or two of my head and turns over just short of the turn of the bilges. Liners and yachts disguise their tanks with decoration, but the G.P.O.

Even Fleury who begat it and, unlike Magniac, died a multi-millionaire, could not explain how the restless little imp shuddering in the U-tube can, in the fractional fraction of a second, strike the furious blast of gas into a chill greyish-green liquid that drains (you can hear it trickle) from the far end of the vacuum through the eduction-pipes and the mains back to the bilges. Here it returns to its gaseous, one had almost written sagacious, state and climbs to work afresh.

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A cross swell had set in from the direction of Formosa Channel about ten o'clock, without disturbing these passengers much, because the Nan-Shan, with her flat bottom, rolling chocks on bilges, and great breadth of beam, had the reputation of an exceptionally steady ship in a sea-way.

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This action set the stage for horror when, Pan American Health Organization officials suspect, a Chinese freighter released its cholera-contaminated bilge water into Lima's harbor.

Dirty water

The writings are on two large monuments, erected in AD 732 and 735 in honor of the Turkish prince Kul (died 731) and his brother the emperor Bilge (died 734) and carved in a script also used for inscriptions found in Mongolia, Siberia, and Turkistan and called by Thomsen "Turkish runes." The inscriptions use epic language to tell of the legendary origins of the Turks, the golden age of their history, their subjugation by the Chinese, and their liberation by Bilge.

Orhon inscriptions, Orhon

Cut the beveled edges of the transom frame bilge pieces (LL), side pieces (JJ) and bottom piece (HH) to the angles shown in Fig.