bilge

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Nautical The rounded portion of a ship's hull, forming a transition between the bottom and the sides.
2. n. Nautical The lowest inner part of a ship's hull.
3. n. Bilge water.
4. n. Slang Stupid talk or writing; nonsense.
5. n. The bulging part of a barrel or cask.
6. v. Nautical To spring a leak in the bilge.
7. v. To bulge or swell.
8. v. Nautical To break open the bilge of.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The wider part or belly of a cask, which is usually in the middle.
2. n. The breadth of a ship's bottom, or that part of her floor which approaches a horizontal direction, and on which she would rest if aground.
3. Nautical, to suffer a fracture in the bilge; spring a leak by a fracture in the bilge.
4. To bulge or swell out.
5. To break or stave in (the bilge or bottom of a ship).

Wiktionary

1. n. nautical The rounded portion of a ship's hull, forming a transition between the bottom and the sides.
2. n. nautical The lowest inner part of a ship's hull.
3. n. uncountable The water accumulated in the bilge, the bilge water.
4. n. slang, uncountable Stupid talk or writing; nonsense.
5. n. The bulging part of a barrel or cask.
6. v. nautical, intransitive To spring a leak in the bilge.
7. v. intransitive To bulge or swell.
8. v. nautical, transitive To break open the bilge(s) of.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. The protuberant part of a cask, which is usually in the middle.
2. n. (Naut.) That part of a ship's hull or bottom which is broadest and most nearly flat, and on which she would rest if aground.
3. n. Bilge water.
4. v. (Naut.) To suffer a fracture in the bilge; to spring a leak by a fracture in the bilge.
5. v. To bulge.
6. v. (Naut.) To fracture the bilge of, or stave in the bottom of (a ship or other vessel).
7. v. To cause to bulge.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. take in water at the bilge
2. n. water accumulated in the bilge of a ship
3. n. where the sides of the vessel curve in to form the bottom
4. v. cause to leak