A small pump used for carrying off the water which may lodge about the lee-bilge, so as not to be under the action of the main pumps. In a steamer it is worked by a single link off one of the levers.
·noun Bilge water. II. Bilge ·vt To cause to bulge. III. Bilge ·vi To <<Bulge>>. IV. Bilge ·noun ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
, or bulge That part of the floor in a ship on either side of the keel which approaches nearer t...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·noun A low shoe with a thin sole. II. Pump ·vi To work, or raise water, a pump. III. Pump ·vt To ...
A thin shoe. To pump; to endeavour to draw a secret from any one without his perceiving it. Your pum...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
A well-known machine used for drawing water from the sea, or discharging it from the ship's pump-wel...
See sliding bilge-blocks. ...
In launching a ship, same with sliding-planks. ...
The illness occasioned by a foul hold. ...
A cask so stowed as to rest entirely on its beds, keeping the lower part of the bilge at least the t...
Used for vessels of very light draught and flattish bottoms, to make them hold a better wind, also t...
These are fitted inside of the bilge, to afford strength where iron, ores, and other heavy cargo are...
Synonymous with bilge-keels. ...
Certain thick strengthenings on the inner and outer lines of the bilge, to secure the shiftings as w...
Another name for bilge-coads. ...
The rain or sea-water which occasionally enters a vessel, and running down to her floor, remains in ...
·- A pump used to exhaust from a condenser the condensed steam, the water used for condensing, and a...
·- A pump consisting of an endless chain, running over a drum or wheel by which it is moved, and dip...
·- A pump having a solid piston, or plunger, for drawing and forcing a liquid, as water, through the...
·noun The for pump in the pit. ...
·- A form of air pump in which exhaustion is produced by a stream of mercury running down a narrow t...
Taken down 1876 and a drinking fountain erected on the site. There was a well called " Alegate well...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
1) On the north side of Skinner Street at No.62 Snow Hill (Lockie, iS16). Removed for the formation ...
1) South-west out of Gravel Lane, not far from the boundary of Bishopsgate Ward Without. In Portsoke...
He was christened in pump water; commonly said of a person that has a red face. ...
A bassoon: from its likeness to a syphon, called a purser's pump. ...
An apparatus to remove the water and gases accumulating in the condenser while the engine is at work...
A name of the bilge-pump. ...
This is composed of two long metal tubes let down through the decks somewhat apart from each other, ...
A punishment so contrived that, if the prisoner would not pump hard, he was drowned. ...
The contrivance by which the boilers of a steamer are supplied with water from the hot-well, while t...
Any pump used to force water beyond that force demanded to deliver at its level, as fire-engines, &c...
The common movable pump for obtaining fresh water, &c., from tanks or casks. ...
A small pump fixed at the vessel's bow, its lower end communicating with the sea: it is mostly used ...
Straws or quills for sucking the liquid from a cask, through a gimlet-hole made for the purpose a pr...
The wooden tube which forms the body of the machine, and wherein the piston moves. ...
Saucer-headed bolts to attach the brake to the pump-standard and pump-spear. ...
The handle or lever of the old and simplest form of pump. ...
The framing or partners on the upper deck, between which the pumps pass into the wells. ...
The chains to which the discs, &c., are attached in the chain-pump. ...
Are used to prevent chips and other matters getting to, and fouling the action of, the chain-pumps. ...
A piece of stout canvas nailed to the pump-partners where it enters the upper deck, and lashed to th...
Pipes or long wooden spouts extending from the chain-pumps across the ship, and through each side, s...
The lower part, or well-end, of a pump. ...
A term implying any materials requisite for fitting or repairing the pumps, as boxes, leather, &c. ...
An iron rod with an eye and a hook, used for drawing out the lower pump-box when requisite. ...
The order to the crew to work the pumps to clear the hold of water. ...
The rod of iron to which the upper box is attached and to the upper end of which the brake is pinned...
The pump sucks is said when, all the water being drawn out of the well, and air admitted, there come...
Small iron or copper tacks, used for nailing the leather on the pump-boxes. ...
See bouge and chine ...
Those logs made to slide under the bilge of a ship in order to support her. ...
Near Whitecross Street (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799). Not named in the maps. ...
Pouring water into the upper part in order to expel the air contained between the lower box and that...
A contrivance by which the pumps of a large vessel are worked, connected with a crank-shaft and fly-...
Set up in 1576 partly at the charges of the parish of St. Andrew) partly at the charges of the Chamb...
See Pump Court. ...
The wooden tube which forms the body of the engine. ...
The support of the bolt for the handle or break. ...
A frame covering the upper wheel of a chain-pump. ...
A cask so placed that its bung-stave is uppermost, and it rests entirely on its beds. ...
" A pump where sometimes was a fayre wel with two buckets by the east end of St. Martin Outwich" (S....