Bilged

Word BILGED
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Definitions and meanings of "Bilged"

What do we mean by bilged?

To spring a leak in the bilge.

To bulge or swell.

To break open the bilge(s) of.

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The word "bilged" in example sentences

Unhappily, there was one man in the present first class who had managed to remain in the Academy in spite of conduct which would have "bilged" ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Only for an instant are their eyes upon it, before it is seen no more, having "bilged" and gone under, leaving but bubbles to mark the place of its disappearance. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

The truck bellowed and bilged and created a very real cloud of insecticide, which we followed with great diligence. ❋ Viviana Carballo (2006)

Northward of the said gate, and was like to be bilged and lost. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Barrier Reef; made several attempts to get the schooner off, got the bower anchors out astern, but in spite of all our efforts the vessel forged further on the reef, and bilged. ❋ Unknown (2003)

After a short time, it was discovered that the ship was thrown on a reef of rocks, and had bilged; and although the water entered her through the holes which the rocks had made, and filled her up to the lower beams, yet that it soon smothered, and, the bilge pieces keeping her upright, she lay comparatively quiet. ❋ Joseph Darvall (N/A)

Had she taken the rock with her bottom, she would most likely have bilged, or upset, and it is a great question, whether our lives, but particularly the lives of the little children, could have been saved, the sea running very high. ❋ George Kmoch (N/A)

This accident, together with the crazy condition of the ship, which was little better than a wreck, prevented her from getting off to sea, and entangled her more and more with the land, so that the next morning at daybreak she struck on a sunken rock, and soon after bilged and grounded between two small islands at about a musket-shot from the shore. ❋ Richard Walter (N/A)

For awhile I had some hope that the stanchness of our vessel's hull might enable us to cling to her till daylight, but she speedily bilged and began to fill. ❋ Theodore Canot (N/A)

We caught one & brought him on board, and sent our prize alongside to save what goods we could, for the ship was bilged. ❋ Various (N/A)

The sloop had lodged on the rock, bilged by the ragged granite. ❋ Bertrand W. Sinclair (1926)

The second ship made no attempt to engage: her crew ran her ashore, and deserted, leaving her bilged in shallow water. ❋ John Masefield (1922)

Looking about, sure enough I espied our poor craft, rolling and tossing helplessly in the shallows hard by, and running thither, was seized of sudden despair, for I saw her bilged and shattered beyond repair. ❋ Jeffery Farnol (1915)

At one time I had hoped that I might make this a means to escape from the island and had laboured to repair and make it seaworthy but, finding this beyond my skill, had abandoned the attempt; for indeed (as I say) it was wofully bilged and broken. ❋ Jeffery Farnol (1915)

He further deposeth That neither while he was at Providence nor afterwards he knew or heard that the said ship _Charles_ was bilged, but he remembers that Joseph ❋ Unknown (1898)

The third day of these wanderings, as we were carrying the canoe upon a rocky portage, she fell, and was entirely bilged. ❋ Unknown (1889)

During the excitement that ensued when Mr McCarthy rushed on deck, declaring that the vessel had bilged in to starboard -- at which time ❋ Unknown (1887)

One of the two boats belonging to the British had been bilged by the surf, and the thirty-five seamen -- only four of them wounded -- packed themselves into the remaining boat and pulled off, carrying with them the captured Dutch colours. ❋ Unknown (1886)

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