Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as bilge-keel.

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Examples

  • In this mighty hoist the port bilge-piece of the lifeboat as she descended struck the top rail of the vessel's bulwarks, and the collision stove in her fore air-box.

    Heroes of the Goodwin Sands Thomas Stanley Treanor

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