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bilge rat – The bilge is the lowest level of the ship. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-09-01] Reference
They still seem to believe that anti-immigrant nativist bilge is a big vote winner for them. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference
Im sure you used all your mental capacity to dig up such bilge from the depths of your feeble education. From Wordnik.com. [Should School Kids Listen to a Speech By President Obama?] Reference
Instead, USS USA was pirated because Congress was down in bilge giving blowjobs to big campaign donors. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Kristof on Nationalization] Reference
To bilge = to be stove in, or suffer serious injury in the bilge, which is the bottom part of a ship's hull. From Wordnik.com. [Anson's Voyage Round the World The Text Reduced] Reference
'bilge' - we can assume he didn't like the question then?. From Wordnik.com. [British Blogs] Reference
Oh, come on, Greg. 90+% of this "bilge" is coming from Clinton. From Wordnik.com. [The Latest On Ferraro: Wolfson Plays The Geffen Card] Reference
What has happened to democrats that they will support this kind of bilge?. From Wordnik.com. [MoveOn announces launch date for anti-McCain ad buy] Reference
It's fun to type in a word and see what comes up -- for instance, I typed in "bilge". From Wordnik.com. [Poetry Potpourri] Reference
(Is this the kind of bilge you are teaching your children?). From Wordnik.com. [Accuracy In Media] Reference
An apt description of the effects of the kind of bilge put out by extremist provokers of hate crimes like Daniel Pipes. From Wordnik.com. [Palestine Blogs aggregator] Reference
I was known as a bilge monkey, since I’m long and skinny I could fish things out of the bilge other sailors couldn’t reach. From Wordnik.com. [Yar and good evening.] Reference
"bilge" about at their pleasure, not a drop could escape out either at the neck or elsewhere. From Wordnik.com. [The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea] Reference
He had been under her bilge, clear down to the keel on. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate"] Reference
Lines were rove and passed under the ship's bilge and keel. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate"] Reference
Its red bilge flung the spray aloft as it towed rapidly toward him. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
The arrangement for baling out the bilge water is extremely laborious. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Arabia] Reference
Not that I was one who craved for wrack and bilge at my nose all the time. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
The copper on the ship's bilge looked a light gray, and even the tacks were visible. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate"] Reference
Only a survey of her bilge outside would help clear up matters, and allow work upon it. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate"] Reference
In this clear water the chances are good for getting a sight of it if it's well up on her bilge. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate"] Reference
Each engine has one feed and one bilge pump attached to the air pump, and worked by the same lever. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884] Reference
I joined Sackett and Chips on the frame, and studied the ship's bilge the entire length of her waist. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate"] Reference
For several days following her bilge pumps sent overboard a continuous stream of water and oil seepage. From Wordnik.com. [The Bird Study Book] Reference
The bilge pieces are riveted on to the bilge, and made of 9 inches by 4-1/2 inches by 9/16 inch T-iron. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884] Reference
They arrive by air and by sea from other continents, in the bilge water of tankers and as stowaways on aircraft. From Wordnik.com. [Aliens Invade America!] Reference
Seems as we might even get down under her bilge durin 'this spell av weather, an' see where th 'leak is located. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate"] Reference
The sky will be black with hostile aircraft, and there will be lead in the stew and bleeding bodies in the bilge. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-09-29] Reference
The outside circumference of the bilge is sixty-four inches and the distance between the heads is twenty-six inches. From Wordnik.com. [Apple Growing] Reference
The Reliance, the new hydroplane of the Interstate people, was twenty feet long and had a fuel gauge and a bilge pump. From Wordnik.com. [Dave Dashaway and His Hydroplane] Reference
This section has a form found in plans of some American freighting ships of 1815-1830, but with slightly slacker bilge. From Wordnik.com. [The Pioneer Steamship Savannah: A Study for a Scale Model United States National Museum Bulletin 228, 1961, pages 61-80] Reference
This powerful pump is in a special compartment of the fore hold, and will draw water from the bilge, sea, or either hold. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884] Reference
The midsection was formed with moderately short and rising floor, round and easy bilge, and some tumble-home in the topside. From Wordnik.com. [The Pioneer Steamship Savannah: A Study for a Scale Model United States National Museum Bulletin 228, 1961, pages 61-80] Reference
A pump was connected with the cylinder cooling apparatus, designed to free the cockpit of bilge water, but the pump would not work. From Wordnik.com. [The Moving Picture Girls at Sea or, A Pictured Shipwreck That Became Real] Reference
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