Water contaminated with oil and chemicals, and accumulated in the bilge of a ship

Filthy drainings. The bilge is the lowest part of a ship, and, as the rain or sea-water which trickles down to this part is hard to get at, it is apt to become foul and very offensive.

A term used to describe the water that collects in the lowest compartment (bilge) of a ship, generally caused by seawater penetration.

  Now slang for nonsense, the term bilge water is the water that collects and stagnates in the bilge of a ship. 

The bilge is the parts of a vessel between the lower-most floorboards and the bottom, where oil-contaminated wastewater - bilge water - drains until further processing. Bilge water is produced when th [..]

all water leaked into the vessel or otherwise accumulated at the lowest interior part of the hull

Water which runs down and collects in the bilges of a ship and usually becomes foul and noxious.

The water inside a vessel, which in flat-floored crafts may rest in the bilge.

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dirty water that collects in a ships bilges

water lying in the bilge or bottom of a boat or vessel.