firewater

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Ships and boats can also pollute waters with discharges including ballast water, bilgewater and water from sinks and showers.

From Fox News • Jul. 27, 2021

Why tip a bucket of bilgewater into a fierce wind?

From New York Times • Oct. 11, 2012

Though bold as always, Director Guthrie in no sense threw out the baby with the bilgewater.

From Time Magazine Archive

I went up to my neck in bilgewater on the wreck and managed to save my passport and the manuscript of my autobiography.

From Time Magazine Archive

He scuttered through the warm bilgewater to the other end and pushed his way up among the wet, crowded rabbits.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams