bilges

1. 1.

   in a vessel with two hulls, an enclosed area between the frames at each side

   Broaderbilge

Other forms of bilges

plural

bilgeses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bilges

What does bilges mean?

bilges means "in a vessel with two hulls, an enclosed area between the frames at each side".

How many syllables are in bilges?

bilges has 1 syllable: bilges.

Is bilges a common word?

bilges 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.