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

1. noun. The protuberant part of a cask, which is usually in the middle.
2. noun. 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. noun. Bilge water.
4. intransitive verb. To suffer a fracture in the bilge; to spring a leak by a fracture in the bilge.
5. intransitive verb. To bulge.
6. transitive verb. To fracture the bilge of, or stave in the bottom of (a ship or other vessel).
7. transitive verb. To cause to bulge.
8. noun. where the sides of the vessel curve in to form the bottom
9. noun. water accumulated in the bilge of a ship
10. verb. take in water at the bilge

    "the tanker bilged"

11. verb. cause to leak

    "the collision bilged the vessel"

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in bilge:

gibel

Common word forms

bilged, bilges, bilging

Words from these letters

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