In bulk; things stowed without cases or packages. (See bulk-heads and laden in bulk.)
·noun The <<Body>>. II. Bulk ·v A projecting part of a building. III. Bulk ·noun The cargo of a ve...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
A measure of capacity for freight in a ship, equal to five cubic feet: so that eight barrel-bulk are...
The Sailor's Word-Book
To open the hold, to begin unloading and disposing of the goods therein, under legal provisions. ...
Partitions built up in several parts of a ship, to form and separate the various cabins from each ot...
Two pickpockets; the bulk jostles the party to be robbed, and the file does the business. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
Afore, is the partition between the forecastle and gratings in the head, and in which are the chase-...
Some of the iron ships have adopted the admirable Chinese plan of dividing the hold athwart-ship by ...
A cargo neither in casks, bales, nor cases, but lying loose in the hold, only defended from wet by m...
See bulk. ...
The old termination aft of the space called beak-head, which inclosed the fore part of the ship. ...
Implies the whole cargo when stowed in the hold. ...