Dictionary Entry
bilge
bilge is a 5-letter English word with 11 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The protuberant part of a cask, which is usually in the middle. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 11 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The protuberant part of a cask, which is usually in the middle.
- 2noun
That part of a ship's hull or bottom which is broadest and most nearly flat, and on which she would rest if aground.
- 3noun
Bilge water.
- 4intransitive verb
To suffer a fracture in the bilge; to spring a leak by a fracture in the bilge.
- 5intransitive verb
To bulge.
- 6transitive verb
To fracture the bilge of, or stave in the bottom of (a ship or other vessel).
- 7transitive verb
To cause to bulge.
- 8noun
where the sides of the vessel curve in to form the bottom
- 9noun
water accumulated in the bilge of a ship
- 10verb
take in water at the bilge
"the tanker bilged"
- 11verb
cause to leak
"the collision bilged the vessel"
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