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Bulk   /bəlk/   Listen
noun
Bulk  n.  
1.
Magnitude of material substance; dimensions; mass; size; as, an ox or ship of great bulk. "Against these forces there were prepared near one hundred ships; not so great of bulk indeed, but of a more nimble motion, and more serviceable."
2.
The main mass or body; the largest or principal portion; the majority; as, the bulk of a debt. "The bulk of the people must labor, Burke told them, "to obtain what by labor can be obtained.""
3.
(Naut.) The cargo of a vessel when stowed.
4.
The body. (Obs.) "My liver leaped within my bulk."
Barrel bulk. See under Barrel.
To break bulk (Naut.), to begin to unload or more the cargo.
In bulk, in a mass; loose; not inclosed in separate packages or divided into separate parts; in such shape that any desired quantity may be taken or sold.
Laden in bulk, Stowed in bulk, having the cargo loose in the hold or not inclosed in boxes, bales, or casks.
Sale by bulk, a sale of goods as they are, without weight or measure.
Synonyms: Size; magnitude; dimension; volume; bigness; largeness; massiveness.


Bulk  n.  A projecting part of a building. (Obs.) "Here, stand behind this bulk."


verb
Bulk  v. i.  (past & past part. bulked; pres. part. bulking)  To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent; to swell. "The fame of Warburton possibly bulked larger for the moment."





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"Bulk" Quotes from Famous Books



... him from a thicket on the shore. It was of little use to go in a canoe. At my approach he would sink deeper and deeper in the water, as if taking in ballast. How he does this is a mystery; for his body is much lighter than its bulk of water. Dead or alive, it floats like a cork; yet without any perceptible motion, by an effort of will apparently, he sinks it out of sight. You are approaching in your canoe, and he moves off slowly, swinging his head from side to side so as to ...
— Wilderness Ways • William J Long
... by a strong suspicion. With one effort of his brawny hands, he pulled loose from the top first the strap of one of the broad upright boards that formed the walls, then the board itself. He turned sideways and slipped his bulk through the aperture, the board swinging elastically ...
— The Ordeal - A Mountain Romance of Tennessee • Charles Egbert Craddock
... Force was now confronted with the bulk of the Boer commandoes, whose strength was vastly superior to its own, and whose courage was generally acknowledged to be splendid. The Dutch have ever a stoical stolidity which serves them in the hour of need as ...
— South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) - From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, - 15th Dec. 1899 • Louis Creswicke
... as we read, besides having a graduated social scale of umbrellas (which was a good thing), prevented the great bulk of their subjects from having any at all, which was certainly a bad thing. We should be sorry to believe that this Eastern legislator was a fool—the idea of an aristocracy of umbrellas is too philosophic to have originated in a nobody—and ...
— Lay Morals • Robert Louis Stevenson
... cues given by the other characters—the whole bound so as to form a handy copy for the actor to study. For instance, there would be four "parts" in a four-people playlet manuscript—therefore you would be offering a producer five manuscripts in all, and the bulk of your material might deter a busy man from reading it carefully. If your manuscript progresses in its sale to the point where parts are desired, the producer will take care of this detail for you. And until you have made a sale, it ...
— Writing for Vaudeville • Brett Page


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