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
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
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
Emily Bell of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism worried that readers might be deluged with "bilge".
From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2022
Down in the bilge I lay, pulling my sea cloak over my head, while the rough gale blew the ships and rueful crews clear back to Aiolia.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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
But two of the members of the class had "bilged."
From Dave Darrin's Fourth Year at Annapolis by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
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.
His knowledge and care, however, did not answer expectation, for he ran the proa on the rocky shoals near the island of Bottone, where she bilged and lost all the mace, the men getting ashore.
But one night it came on to blow again harder than ever; a tremendous sea rolled in, and the poor sloop was irretrievably bilged, and in a few days broke up altogether.
From The Three Midshipmen by Victor Prout
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
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.
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
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
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