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bilged

  • past participle
    of bilge.
    bilge
  • past tense form
    of bilge.
    bilge

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Many of them bilged, or failed to graduate!

From Time Magazine Archive

In less than twenty minutes she was hopelessly bilged, and her decks swept by every sea.

From "Pig-Headed" Sailor Men From "The Strange Adventure Of James Shervinton and Other Stories" - 1902 by Louis Becke

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.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Robert Kerr

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 Brantz Mayer

“O’ the gig gettin’ bilged, Mister Ed’ard,” is the ready, but not truthful, rejoinder.

From The Land of Fire A Tale of Adventure by Mayne Reid

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