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
Fadich worked the bilge pumps till he was “blue in the face” just to keep the vessel above water.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 2, 2023
It is oppressively dull work, but at least it isn’t the bilge.
From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2022
But when I hop aboard and crawl into the bilge to look, the boat is dry inside.
From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick
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
“Well; up at a early hour next mornin’, we found the boat had drifted off seaward, an’ got bilged on the breakers.
From The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea by Mayne Reid
In a short time after, she struck, bilged, and grounded, between two small islands, where Providence directed us to such a place as we could save our lives.
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.
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.
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 Mayne Reid
She was bilging fast, with an ominous list to larboard, and it could be no more than a question of moments before she settled down.
From Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini
"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
The ship continued to beat on the rocks, and soon bilging, fell with her broadside towards the shore.
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.
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