bilge
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Many of them bilged, or failed to graduate!
From Time Magazine Archive
The main and mizzen masts were at once cut away; but the heavy marble in her hold had broken through her bottom, and she bilged.
From Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II by Fuller, Margaret
The order was promptly executed, but unhappily without producing the desired result, for in a few moments the ship bilged, and the destruction of the whole crew appeared to be inevitable.
From Narratives of Shipwrecks of the Royal Navy; between 1793 and 1849 by Gilly, William O. S.
They had afterwards waited two days for the Sun, but she had been bilged on the rocks, as we afterwards learnt, to our great regret.
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.
From Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver by Mayer, Brantz
