bilge water

1. 1.

   water accumulated in the bilge of a ship

   Synonymsbilge

   Broaderwater

Questions about bilge water

What does bilge water mean?

bilge water means "water accumulated in the bilge of a ship".

What is another word for bilge water?

Close synonyms include bilge. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bilge water a common word?

bilge water is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.