(n.) The protuberant part of a cask, which is usually in the middle.
(n.) That part of a ship's hull or bottom which is broadest and most nearly flat, and on which she would rest if aground.
(n.) Bilge water.
(v. i.) To suffer a fracture in the bilge; to spring a leak by a fracture in the bilge.
(v. i.) To bulge.
(v. t.) To fracture the bilge of, or stave in the bottom of (a ship or other vessel).
(v. t.) To cause to bulge.
Example Sentences:
(1) I get lots of negative emails but the people I meet are always friendly.” The existence of Snopes and similar sites like FactCheck.Org , TruthOrFiction.com and PolitiFact.com raises several questions: who produces the bilge?
(2) When Clegg told his party they were now "the radical middle, governing from the middle for the middle", in the same breath as claiming the heritage of Mill, Lloyd George, Keynes and Beveridge, it was plain bilge.
(3) Clegg said in an Independent interview on Friday that he had joked to Cameron that he was talking "complete bilge" when he defended the first-past-the-post system at prime minister's questions on Wednesday.
(4) "Bilge," he grumbled when another student wanted to know about his links with a lobbying firm that later worked for Colonel Gaddafi.
(5) In the area of non-toxic waste, Genesearch has developed products for on-site treatment of, for example, grease-trap wastes and waste oil in ship bilges; and a large scale process for conversion of municipal grease wastes into protein-rich biomass.
(6) As the election season moves into high gear, co-founder David Mikkelson says “the bilge is rising faster than you can pump”.
(7) The Catholic father in Ken Loach's Jimmy's Hall is just the most implacable enemy of nice-as-pie communists showing everyone a good time; the village imam in Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Winter Sleep is an ingratiating, smirking creep; and the local rev in The Homesman (as played by John Lithgow) is definitely a weasel, rather too obviously grateful not to have to transport three traumatised frontierwomen back east.
(8) Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Winter Sleep was a punishing three-and-a-quarter hour workout from the Turkish master.
(9) The frontrunner is still Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Winter Sleep, a three-and-a-half Turkish drama about an actor grappling with marital breakdown in the mountains.
(10) It tasted as you might imagine licking the slime off a fish that has been left to fester in a warm room for three days might taste; it had the tang of bilge and entrail.
(11) If the bilge pump stops, you are done,” said Cauchi.
(12) "Of course we are fighting it [and] we will win," said Sanci's daughter Bilge Sanci, executive editor at his publishing house Sel Yayincilik.
(13) Imagine the pejorative bilge that they'd stir up and slap on, if it'd been a yarn not about tycoons and warlords but about people outside of the mainstream; an out-of-favour celeb, an immigrant or a gypsy.
(14) There has been one movie which, though not exactly a disappointment, has caused critics to revise their expectations – and that is Winter Sleep , by the Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan.
(15) "I kept my silence for weeks and weeks and weeks of ludicrous bilge being put out there [by the no to AV campaign] to dupe and to scare the British people."
(16) "My kingdom may be small but at least I'm the king," boasts the despised landlord at the heart of Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Turkish drama Winter Sleep.
(17) And in any case, Clegg assured everyone, claims that the Queen had got into a bust-up with him over Brexit back in 2011 were “A-grade, 24-carat bilge”.
(18) AP Winter Sleep Nuri Bilge Ceylan with actress Hatice Aslan and screenwriter Ebru Ceylan at Cannes 2008.
(19) The bilge is contaminating, not destroying, public discourse.
(20) The bilge keeps coming faster than you can pump.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest The patron saint of fact-checking ... David Mikkelson, co-founder of Snopes.com at his desk in Calabasas, California.