Usually means: Bottom part of a ship.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. bilge: Merriam-Webster
  2. bilge: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bilge: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bilge: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bilge: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bilge, bilge: Wordnik
  7. bilge: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. bilge: Wiktionary
  9. bilge: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bilge: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bilge: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Bilge, bilge: Dictionary.com
  13. bilge: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Bilge (disambiguation), Bilge (name), Bilge: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Bilge: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. bilge: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. bilge: Rhymezone
  18. Bilge: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. bilge: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. bilge: FreeDictionary.org
  21. bilge: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. bilge: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. bilge: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. bilge: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. bilge: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bilge: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bilge: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. bilge: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. bilge (water): English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Bilge: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Canoe Terminology (No longer online)
  2. Bilge: Sports Definitions

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See bilged as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (nautical) The rounded portion of a ship's hull, forming a transition between the bottom and the sides.
noun:  (nautical) The lowest inner part of a ship's hull, where water accumulates.
noun:  (uncountable) The water accumulated in the bilge; bilge water.
noun:  (slang, uncountable) Stupid talk or writing; nonsense.
noun:  The bulging part of a barrel or cask.
verb:  (nautical, intransitive) To spring a leak in the bilge.
verb:  (intransitive) To bulge or swell.
verb:  (nautical, transitive) To break open the bilge(s) of.

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