Definition of Bilging

1. Verb. (present participle of bilge) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bilging

1. bilge [v] - See also: bilge

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bilging

bilevel
bilevels
bilge
bilge keel
bilge keels
bilge pump
bilge pumps
bilge water
bilge well
bilged
bilges
bilgewater
bilgewaters
bilgier
bilgiest
bilging (current term)
bilgy
bilharzia
bilharzial
bilharzial appendicitis
bilharzial dysentery
bilharzial granuloma
bilharzias
bilharziases
bilharziasis
bilharzioma
bilharziosis
bili-
bilian
bilians

Literary usage of Bilging

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Transactions of the North-East Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders (1904)
"and the hold abaft it were both flooded, then the GM would be 3 inches greater after bilging than before it. (3) If the hold and an engine room on one side ..."

2. A Treatise on the Law of Marine Insurance and Average: With References to by Sir Joseph Arnould (1850)
"49. -were the majority, (c) Wells u. Hopwood, 3 B. & Ad. 20. (rf) 3 B. & Ad. 26. 1 bilging, as well as stranding, is introduced into some American policies ..."

3. War-ships: A Text-book on the Construction, Protection, Stability, Turning by Edward Lewis Attwood (1904)
"Thus, in the first of the above examples, if a watertight flat were worked 5 ft. from the keel between the bulkheads, if bilging took place (i. ..."

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