a market-town of Suffolk, about ten miles south-east of Bury, E. long 40°, and N. lat. 52° 20'.

BILIDGE of a ship, the bottom of her floor, or the breadth of the place the ship rests on when she is aground. Therefore, bilge-water is that which lies on her floor, and cannot go to the well of the pump: And bilge-pumps, or butt-pumps, are those that carry off the bilge-water. They likewise say the ship is bilged, when she has some of her timber struck off on a rock or anchor, and springs a leak.