bilge
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If you have ever sat at a restaurant, marveling at the bilge offered on the kids’ menu and wondering how on earth we got here, “Picky” has the answers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
The bilge water was not processed through required pollution prevention equipment, and the illegal discharges were not recorded in the vessel’s oil record book, as required by law, prosecutors said.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 9, 2023
“I’m just thrown away here — a nobody,” the sailor who was assigned to clean the bilge said in an interview.
From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2022
Emily Bell of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism worried that readers might be deluged with "bilge".
From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2022
The rabbits had been frightened by what had happened to Acorn and to the doe, and remained squatting miserably, half in and half out of the bilge.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
She urged measures such as requiring fishers and riverboat operators to bleach boat hulls, bilges, and wells after passing through an affected area.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 20, 2021
We mapped the bilges out in the fall, came back and looked at them in spring, and there was nothing there.
From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2017
But it actually is a Spanish expression, “of where the sea goes”; while the Spanish never settled this area, they would empty their bilges so the ocean would wash away their effluence.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 20, 2016
Since hitchhiking to the Great Lakes in the bilges of ocean-going ships, they have expanded virtually unchecked and are considered a major threat to waterways including Lake Erie.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 29, 2015
With each dip and plunge of the boat, Worsley swooped the pot up in the air lest their precious hoosh go slopping into the bilges.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
Many of them bilged, or failed to graduate!
From Time Magazine Archive
The chief mate then cut her masts away, but the bottom was soon bilged, and everything destroyed by the water, which broke over the decks, and the ship became a perfect wreck.
Our boat, very probably, had gone half her length on top of the edge of it, and was then washed off again after she had bilged; and the strong current had set us clear.
From Rídan The Devil And Other Stories 1899 by Becke, Louis
They had afterwards waited two days for the Sun, but she had been bilged on the rocks, as we afterwards learnt, to our great regret.
About the same time Captain Purvis, while chasing a French ship, got his vessel on a ledge of rocks, where she was bilged.
From How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 by Kingston, William Henry Giles
In another instant she would be bilging helplessly among the sands of Africa, or would be on her course free and unimpeded for the shores of America!
From Ran Away to Sea by Reid, Mayne
The Tryal was a great way to leeward, having lost her main-mast in the squall, and having been obliged to cut away the wreck, for fear of bilging.
The ship continued to beat on the rocks, and soon bilging, fell with her broadside towards the shore.
Indeed, to make her safe from bilging, Blood ordered a prompt jettisoning of the forward guns, anchors, and water-casks and whatever else was moveable.
From Captain Blood by Sabatini, Rafael
"And that perhaps you've saved us from bilging?" added Midshipman Hayes.
From Dave Darrin's First Year at Annapolis by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)
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