Crossword-Solution: BILGE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Bilge | n. | The protuberant part of a cask, which is usually in the middle. |
| Bilge | n. | That part of a ship's hull or bottom which is broadest and most nearly flat, and on which she would rest if aground. |
| Bilge | n. | Bilge water. |
| Bilge | v. i. | To suffer a fracture in the bilge; to spring a leak by a fracture in the bilge. |
| Bilge | v. i. | To bulge. |
| Bilge | v. t. | To fracture the bilge of, or stave in the bottom of (a ship or other vessel). |
| Bilge | v. t. | To cause to bulge. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| BILGE | anagram | BLIGE, GIBEL, GLEBI |
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One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with BILGE (5)
They pawed the yaller-boys, and sifted them through their fingers and let them jingle down on the floor; and the king says: “It ain’t no use talkin’; bein’ brothers to a rich dead man and representatives of furrin heirs that’s got left is the line for you and me, Bilge.
Clouds of sea-gulls were forever rising and settling upon this mud bank; a wrecked and abandoned wharf crawled over it on tottering legs; close in an old sailboat lay canted on her bilge.
All the slops of that court went into the drama, all the ‘sentina reipublicae’, the bilge water of the ship of state.
Lord, what boats I've handled -- rotten and leaky and old! Ran 'em, or -- opened the bilge-cock, precisely as I was told.
Chains clanked, a ship's dog barked incessantly from a companionway, ropes creaked in complaining pulleys, blocks rattled, hoisting-engines coughed and strangled, while all the air was redolent of oakum, of pitch, of paint, of spices, of ripe fruit, of clean cool lumber, of coffee, of tar, of bilge, and the brisk, nimble odor of the sea.
Quotes with BILGE (3)
Or maybe he means in a richer world the begging population is melting away. But no to that too. So maybe, perhaps, he means there aren't many 'human beings' left to look, see, and understand well enough for one to ask and one to give. Everyone busy, running, jumping, there's no time to study one another. But I guess that's bilge and hogwash, slop and sentiment.
If you try to talk about a truth that’s merely moral, people always think it’s merely metaphorical. A real live man with two legs once said to me: ‘I only believe in the Holy Ghost in a spiritual sense.’ Naturally, I said: ‘In what other sense could you believe it?’ And then he thought I meant he needn’t believe in anything except evolution, or ethical fellowship, or some bilge. . . . -- The Secret of Father Brown
The sun was already long past the spire when Garrick purchased a mug of coffee from his regular man on the tip of Oxford Street. But his palate had been educated by 21st century coffee, and he judged this mug as bilge water not fit for the Irish.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 128 times in crossword archives (1943–2025).