(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.
Cask
Definition:
(n.) Same as Casque.
(n.) A barrel-shaped vessel made of staves headings, and hoops, usually fitted together so as to hold liquids. It may be larger or smaller than a barrel.
(n.) The quantity contained in a cask.
(n.) A casket; a small box for jewels.
(v. t.) To put into a cask.
Example Sentences:
(1) Having effectively achieved its goal to promote cask ale as “real” ale (more than 11,000 real ales are now brewed in the UK ), the 45-year-old organisation has been enduring an identity crisis, and is looking to its members for a solution .
(2) Cynics will tell you Camra’s membership know all about identity crises – once the rebels of the 1970s, they’re now mostly older dads and grandads – purists upholding Camra’s “cask only” creed as sacred.
(3) In the 1940s as it was in the 1840s, as it had been ever since the Mayflower arrived at Plymouth laden with emboldening casks of wine and beer.
(4) Swing by its tasting room and you can try Burnley Bastard Mild brewed by Real Cask, or Nonsensical – an IPA from Brewery Creek.
(5) The John Hewitt also serves Punk IPA and one cask beer - on this visit Shepherd Neame’s Early Bird.
(6) Eight cask pumps showcase Leeds beers (try the pale or the dark mild, Midnight Bell) and four guests, with keg lines, such as a craft lager from York micro Hop Studio, adding interest.
(7) Maltings' seven cask ales include permanent Black Sheep, regular staples such as York Brewery's Guzzler and beers from newer, smaller breweries, such as Coxhoe's Sonnet 43 and Morpeth's Anarchy.
(8) We pay €5 each and fall into the 7 Estrellas bar (Travesa Alexandre Herculano, opposite the meat market), where small tumblers of excellent wine from the cask are 30 cents a throw.
(9) Across eight cask pumps, seven keg lines and three hand-pulled ciders, the Rook runs the gamut from exotic European imports (Opat's self-explanatory orange and mandarin Czech pils) to beers from lesser-spotted UK micros, such as Grafters and Jurassic Brewhouse.
(10) But now, thanks to current methods of brewing lagers, pale ales, porters and the like, “good” doesn’t necessarily mean “cask”.
(11) When a cask is full – each can take 22 fuel assemblies – a second crane hoists it from the pool and places it on a trailer.
(12) Cloudwater co-founder Paul Jones describes the organisation as a “force for good, but yesterday’s force for good”, while Thornbridge’s head brewer, Rob Lovatt, suggests Camra focuses “too heavily on real ale and fails to recognise other forms of beer”, however much good work it has done “raising awareness for cask beer in general”.
(13) The four genes reside on less than 200 kb of DNA in the order CASAS1-CASB-CASAS2-CASK.
(14) Cask beer aside, Fringe majors on continental and Belgian bottles, with the likes of Duvel, Leffe and Timmerman's on draught, as well as real perries and ciders.
(15) And all around, industrial lagers and conservative cask ales, and nothing in between.” Watt’s public persona is all up yours and in your face.
(16) OS reference: SM 817 040 The pit stop: Griffin Inn, Dale, Haverfordwest The owners of this waterside pub, Sian and Simon, are incredibly welcoming hosts who pride themselves on their home-grown ingredients and serve some excellent local cask ales.
(17) Many craft beers, including BrewDog’s, do not qualify as real ale under Camra’s strict criteria simply because, although some are served from casks, most come in kegs, bottles and cans, and with added CO2.
(18) And in many cases introduced new drinkers to cask beer.” Differences aside, Stainer laments the difficulties in “pinning down a definition of craft beer”, and suggests “in many cases, real ale is craft beer and craft beer is real ale”.
(19) Everything you want from a beer – and less.’” With no real tradition of cask ale, the independent US brewers who set about challenging the status quo took another path, reviving long-forgotten beer styles after their own fashion and – crucially – using American, usually west coast hops, rich with heady, intense, bitter flavours and powerful aromas of citrus and pine resins all but unknown in Britain.
(20) This real ale redoubt for dissenting Village drinkers serves six cask ales (from local outfits such as Little Valley, Beartown, Dunham Massey, etc), two craft keg beers from Bury's Outstanding and a short, solid list of imported bottled beers, including Flying Dog's Raging Bitch and Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout.