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Definition of Bilged
1. bilge [v] - See also: bilge
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bilged
Literary usage of Bilged
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Recollections of a Rebel Reefer by James Morris Morgan (1917)
"... Skating on thin ice — The bilged — Secession. IN September, 1860, I went to
Annapolis and presented myself before the Board of Examiners for admittance. ..."
2. Calendar of Virginia State Papers and Other Manuscripts: ... Preserved in by Virginia, William Pitt Palmer, Sherwin McRae, Raleigh Edward Colston, Henry W. Flournoy (1875)
"... having but the Main fale, & the Boom Broke & in a Hard 1781 bad place of
ground & bilged the ..."
3. A Practical and Elementary Abridgment of the Cases Argued and Determined in by Elisha Hammond, Charles Petersdorff (1830)
"»ea in the was made had been "by the waves, winds, and perils of the sea,"
bilged, &.c. ... bilged ..."
4. A Treatise on Pleading and Parties to Actions: With Second and Third Volumes by Joseph Chitty, Henry Greening, John A. Dunlap, Edward Duncan Ingraham, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1851)
"... several premises, the said ship or vessel, her tackle, and appurtenances, he
became respectively became, and were unavoidably greatly bilged, broken, ..."
5. Practical Shipbuilding: A Treatise on the Structural Design and Building of by A. Campbell Holms (1918)
"If the bilged compartment were the fore peak, as shown in Fig. ... In a block-shaped
vessel, if a bilged compartment were amidships, so as to cause no ..."
6. Wrecks Around Nantucket: Since the Settlement of the Island, and the by Arthur H. Gardner (1915)
"The crew and passengers on board were saved, but the vessel bilged. November 2d,
brig "Clio," of and for Saco, Me., from St. Eustatia, wtih a cargo of salt ..."
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