Bulk

·noun The Body.

II. Bulk ·v A projecting part of a building.

III. Bulk ·noun The cargo of a vessel when stowed.

IV. Bulk ·vi To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent; to Swell.

V. Bulk ·noun Magnitude of material substance; dimensions; mass; size; as, an ox or ship of great bulk.

VI. Bulk ·noun The main mass or body; the largest or principal portion; the majority; as, the bulk of a debt.

bulk
In bulk; things stowed without cases or packages. (See bulk-heads and laden in bulk.) ...

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barrel-bulk
A measure of capacity for freight in a ship, equal to five cubic feet: so that eight barrel-bulk are...

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break-bulk
To open the hold, to begin unloading and disposing of the goods therein, under legal provisions. ...

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bulk-heads
Partitions built up in several parts of a ship, to form and separate the various cabins from each ot...

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bulk and file
Two pickpockets; the bulk jostles the party to be robbed, and the file does the business. ...

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bulk-head, the
Afore, is the partition between the forecastle and gratings in the head, and in which are the chase-...

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compartment bulk-heads
Some of the iron ships have adopted the admirable Chinese plan of dividing the hold athwart-ship by ...

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laden in bulk
A cargo neither in casks, bales, nor cases, but lying loose in the hold, only defended from wet by m...

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stowed in bulk
See bulk. ...

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beak-head bulk-head
The old termination aft of the space called beak-head, which inclosed the fore part of the ship. ...

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bulk of a ship
Implies the whole cargo when stowed in the hold. ...

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