Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
bilge-keel .
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Examples
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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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