† bolkenv.
Obsolete. rare.
1. intransitive. To gush, flow in gulps. = bolk v. 7.
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the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of flowing > flow [verb (intransitive)] > copiously
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a1300 E.E. Psalter cxliii[iv]. 13 Cleves..Bolkenand fra þat in to yit [? þis; v.r. from þis in þat; L. eructantia ex hoc in illud.]
2. To throb. = bolk v. 6.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > pulsation > pulsate [verb (intransitive)] > and heave
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1697 Philos. Trans. 1695–7 (Royal Soc.) 19 379 The tops of my Fingers..did boaken and ake, as when after extream cold, one has the hot-ach in them.
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