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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

To swell out. See

[Obs.]

Verb.

To cause to leak.

[Obs.]

See

Verb.

To swell out. [See Bouge.]

Verb.

To perforate; as, to bowge a ship.

[I do not find this word in any other author.]

bowge ‎(third-person singular simple present bowges, present participle bowging, simple past and past participle bowged)