bilge
Example Sentences
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Many of them bilged, or failed to graduate!
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From Martin Conisby's Vengeance by Jeffery Farnol
Our boat, very probably, had gone half her length on top of the edge of it, and was then washed off again after she had bilged; and the strong current had set us clear.
From Rídan The Devil And Other Stories 1899 by Louis Becke
Friday the 15th, the ship was bilged in the mid-ship, on a great rock; we took care to secure some powder, ball, and a little bread.
The second ship made no attempt to engage: her crew ran her ashore, and deserted, leaving her bilged in shallow water.
From On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. by John Masefield
