bilge

bilge has 11 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 5.

Definitions

• 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.
• n.. where the sides of the vessel curve in to form the bottom
• n.. water accumulated in the bilge of a ship
• v.. take in water at the bilge; "the tanker bilged"
• v.. cause to leak; "the collision bilged the vessel"