Bilge

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Bilge water.

II. Bilge ·vt To cause to bulge.

III. Bilge ·vi To Bulge.

IV. Bilge ·noun The protuberant part of a cask, which is usually in the middle.

V. Bilge ·vt To fracture the bilge of, or stave in the bottom of (a ship or other vessel).

VI. Bilge ·vi To suffer a fracture in the bilge; to spring a leak by a fracture in the bilge.

VII. Bilge ·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.