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• n  water accumulated in the bilge of a ship
• n  where the sides of the vessel curve in to form the bottom
• v  cause to leak
  the collision bilged the vessel
• v  take in water at the bilge
  the tanker bilged

• Much was made of Cheney's venting, and it is a bit too easy, after six years of this bilge, to dwell on the Vice President's aura and miss the essential felony of the Bush .
• A creature that only an animal man could love, it has the temper of a bald hornet, the odor of cattle-boat bilge water and the bodily build of a Sherman tank.
• Its flotation was entirely dependent on whether the bilge pump could keep up with the leakage.

• bilge water
• take in water

News & Articles

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• PUZZLE PIRATES - IPAD LAUNCH TRAILER
  ?20 JUN 2013 Swordfight, drink, man the bilge, set sail and more all using unique puzzle minigames in the iOS port of Three Rings' hit PC MMORPG. Don't have IGN Prime?
  June 21, 2013 - IGN Guides

Quotes

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• Nick Clegg in The Guardian
  Clegg told him: "This is just such bilge. I've always been completely open about the fact that I spent, 20 years ago, I spent nine months as a backroom researcher with a consultancy in London."
• Ansel Adams in Boston Globe
  Of Reagan's environmental policies in general, Adams said, "The flow of bilge from the Reagan administration is a blot upon our history of literacy."