a town of Suffolk in England, seated on a creek on the river Bretton. The principal manufacture is of woollen goods, especially blankets. E. Long. 0° 45', N. Lat. 52° 20'.

BILDEGE 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.