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bilge water [′bilj ‚wȯd·ər] (naval architecture) Water that builds up in a ship's bilges. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Notwithstanding that its walls were blotched, as if missionary maps were bursting out of them to impart geographical knowledge; notwithstanding that its weird furniture was forlornly faded and musty, and that the prevailing Venetian odour of bilge water and an ebb tide on a weedy shore was very strong; the place was better within, than it promised. All right then; limpid, salubrious: no gush of bilge water had turned it to fetid puddle. |
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