a town of Suffolk in England, seated on a creek on the river Breton. The principal manufacture is in woollen goods, especially blankets. E. Long. o. 45. N. Lat. 52. 20.

BILGE 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 burr-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.