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It is a noun that refers to the foul or dirty water that collects in the bilge of a ship. Example: The crew had to pump out the bilgewater from the ship's hold before setting sail. Another example: The smell of bilgewater caused many of the passengers to feel seasick on the rough voyage.
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bilgewater
noun
Water which collects in the bilges of a ship.
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In the bottom of the hull, bilgewater sloshes past a pile of rusty pulleys.
Why tip a bucket of bilgewater into a fierce wind?
Tugboats push barges up and down, and gigantic oceangoing freighters and tankers stream by, bilgewater pouring from their anchor ports.
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