Bilge

1. n. Bilge water.
2. n. The protuberant part of a cask, which is usually in the middle.
3. n. That part of a ship’s hull or bottom which is broadest and most nearly flat, and on which she would rest if aground.
4. v. t. To fracture the bilge of, or stave in the bottom of (a ship or other vessel).

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.