Bigge vs Bilge - What's the difference?
bigge | bilge |
* {{quote-book, year=1598, author=Richard Hakluyt, title=The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I., chapter=, edition=
, passage=Sebastian Cabot himselfe named those lands Baccalaos, because that in the Seas thereabout hee found so great multitudes of certaine bigge fishes much like vnto Tunies, (which the inhabitants called Baccalaos) that they sometimes stayed his shippes. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1733, author=Various, title=Great Epochs in American History, Vol. II, chapter=, edition=
, passage=The King of the Paschattowayes had drawen together 1500 bowe-men, which wee ourselves saw, the woods were fired in manner of beacons the night after; and for that our vessel was the greatest that euer those Indians saw, the scowtes reported wee came in a Canoe, as bigge as an Island, and had as many men as there bee trees in the woods. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1890, author=William Painter, title=The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Wherefore takinge vp a bigge stone, he began againe with greater blowes to beate at the doore.}}
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(nautical) The rounded portion of a ship's hull, forming a transition between the bottom and the sides.
(nautical) The lowest inner part of a ship's hull.
(uncountable) The water accumulated in the bilge, the bilge water.
(slang, uncountable) Stupid talk or writing; nonsense.
The bulging part of a barrel or cask.
(nautical) To spring a leak in the bilge.
To bulge or swell.
(nautical) To break open the bilge(s) of.
As an adjective bigge
is .As a proper noun bilge is
.bigge
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