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 ship is built in sections, then joined together on the slipway, supported by keel blocks, bilge blocks, wedges and "shores" - heavy lengths of timber.
From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2024
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
Before long, water filled the base of the boat, the bilge pump grinding in a constant whir as it tried to keep up.
From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 2023
The guard pointed to the hatch leading to the bilge, and said, “No problem.”
From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin
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
One of the Pulo-way people being there, plainly told me that the governor only waited to have her bilged, that he might have the planks to build a praw for himself.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 by Robert Kerr
Looking about, sure enough I espied our poor craft, rolling and tossing helplessly in the shallows hard by, and running thither, was seized of sudden despair, for I saw her bilged and shattered beyond repair.
From Martin Conisby's Vengeance by Jeffery Farnol
She thumped terribly, and almost every sea was breaking entirely over us when a seaman exclaimed, "She is bilged, a plank has come up from her bottom."
From Journal of Voyages Containing an Account of the Author's being Twice Captured by the English and Once by Gibbs the Pirate... by Jacob Dunham
But she was so badly bilged, and the water was gaining so fast, that her hours were numbered.
From Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors: Tales of 1812 by James Barnes
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.
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 Rafael Sabatini
The ship continued to beat on the rocks, and soon bilging, fell with her broadside towards the shore.
The Trial sloop was a great way to leeward, having lost her mainmast in this squall, and having been obliged, for fear of bilging, to cut away the wreck.
From Anson's Voyage Round the World The Text Reduced by H. W. Household
"And that perhaps you've saved us from bilging?" added Midshipman Hayes.
From Dave Darrin's First Year at Annapolis by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
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