BILGE

PRONUNCIATION: (bilj)

MEANING: noun: 1. The bottom (inner or outer) part of a ship or a boat.
2. Water, oil, and waste that collect in the lowest part of a ship or a boat.
3. Nonsense; rubbish.
4. The bulging part of a barrel or a cask.
verb: 1. To bulge or swell.
tr., intr. 2. To break a hole. 3. To spring a leak.

ETYMOLOGY: Probably a variant of bulge, from Old French boulge, from Latin bulga (bag). Earliest documented use: 1522.
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BILOGE - having two tiers of boxes between the theater floor and the balcony

BILBE - a bible for the dyslexic

ABILGE - full to the brim with sewerage