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dill1 n also dell OED ~ sb3 naut (1882);
cp OED dell1 1 'deep hole,' EDD dell sb 3 'low, hollow place' Ha
for sense 1.
1 Space in bottom of a fishing boat in which
bilge-water collects; in a decked boat. the opening which leads to such a space.
1897 J A Folklore x, 204 ~ a space under the floor of a
boat, either open or with a movable covering, from which the water is bailed out. 1937
DEVINE 18 ~ The opening in the floor boards of a boat for bailing. It is made over the
place where the bilge water collects. P 102-60 The man using [the spudgel] did not have
to stoop down to bail out water from the dill in the after part of the boat. C 70-18 Many
times I remember [him] boiling [the mussels] in the piggin, a tin container used to throw
bilge water from the dell in the boat. C 71-94 The dell is the hole left in the floor
boards of a motor boat. This hole is left in front of the engineroom because this is the
deepest part of the boat [in which] the piggin may be used to dip the water out of the
boat.
2 Attrib, comb dill board: movable wooden
cover placed over aperture in floor-boards of a boat (P 187-73).
dill room: the well or deepest inside part of a boat; ROOM.
[1774] 1792 CARTWRIGHT ii, 23 The boat worked up, took me on board
there, and soon after we ran upon a rock near Bettres Island. The shock started a timber,
and staved a plank in the dillroom. 1949 FITZGERALD 32 "The Ballad of Pious Pad": The
cuddy sweep was pulled by Black Jim Flynn, / I had the bow, Aunt Mary's Tom, the stroke;
/ The midship oar was manned by John Joe Greene; / The [dillroom] oar by Skipper Peter
Croke. T 80/3--64 He had a glass put in the skiff, in the bottom o' the skiff. An' he had
a funnel made, an' he was rowin' along, he'd be down in the dell room lookin' down
through. T 31/2-64 I had boards up to keep [the fish] from comin' down in the dell room
where you used to heave the water out. T 172/5-65 He could handle hisself in the water,
an' when he came up he grabbed the boat at the dellroom.
dill
water: bilge-water.
P 148-59 The stench from the dell water
was sickening.
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