| 单词 |
bilge-water |
| 释义 |
ˈbilge-water a. The water that collects in the bilge of a ship through leakage or otherwise, and becomes disgustingly foul and noxious.
1706Phillips, Bildge-Water, that water which..cannot come to the Well in the Ship's Hold. 1751Smollett Per. Pic. lx, May I be bound to eat oakum and drink bilge-water for life. 1840R. Dana Bef. Mast ii. 3 That inexpressibly sickening smell, caused by the shaking up of the bilge-water in the hold. b. = bilge n. 1 c. slang.
1878G. M. Hopkins Let. 13 May (1935) 50 Write no bilgewater about it. |

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