bilge Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun water accumulated in the bilge of a ship
    bilge water.
  2. noun where the sides of the vessel curve in to form the bottom
  3. verb cause to leak
    • the collision bilged the vessel
  4. verb take in water at the bilge
    take in water.
    • the tanker bilged

WordNet

Bilge noun
Etymology
A different orthography of bulge, of same origin as belly. Cf. Belly, Bulge.
Definitions
  1. The protuberant part of a cask, which is usually in the middle.
  2. (Naut.) That part of a ship's hull or bottom which is broadest and most nearly flat, and on which she would rest if aground.
  3. Bilge water.
Bilge intransitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Bilged ; present participle & verbal noun Bilging
Definitions
  1. (Naut.) To suffer a fracture in the bilge; to spring a leak by a fracture in the bilge.
  2. To bulge.
Bilge transitive verb
Definitions
  1. (Naut.) To fracture the bilge of, or stave in the bottom of (a ship or other vessel).
  2. To cause to bulge.

Webster 1913