BILGE WATER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bilge water mean? 

• BILGE WATER (noun)
  The noun BILGE WATER has 1 sense:

1. water accumulated in the bilge of a ship

  Familiarity information: BILGE WATER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BILGE WATER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Water accumulated in the bilge of a ship

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

bilge; bilge water

Hypernyms ("bilge water" is a kind of...):

H2O; water (binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent)

 Context examples 

All right then; limpid, salubrious: no gush of bilge water had turned it to fetid puddle.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)