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

It is oppressively dull work, but at least it isn’t the bilge.

From New York Times • Dec. 9, 2022

What a lot of bilge I could think up at night.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway