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
“Officers and surgeons roamed the decks, sniffing out potential culprits: foul bilge, moldy sails, rancid meat, human sweat, rotten timber, dead rats, piss and excrement, unwashed livestock, dirty breath,” Grann writes.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 18, 2023
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
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
Her bottom bilged immediately, and the masts were as soon cut away, and the gallant ship, upon which hung the hopes of the colony, was now a complete wreck.
From The Naval Pioneers of Australia by Louis Becke
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 William Henry Giles Kingston
Friday the 15th, the ship was bilged in the mid-ship, on a great rock; we took care to secure some powder, ball, and a little bread.
The second ship made no attempt to engage: her crew ran her ashore, and deserted, leaving her bilged in shallow water.
From On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. by John Masefield
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 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
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
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