bulkingn.
/ˈbʌlkɪŋ/ 1. The action or process of laying in heaps, or piling without package: also attributive. Cf. bulk v.1 5.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [noun] > composite collectiveness > accumulation > heaping or piling up
heapingc900
upheapingc1374
aggeration?a1425
piling1434
coacervation1495
pilement1597
bulking1602
acervation1614
aggestion1659
exaggerationa1676
pyramiding1910
1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 33 Pilchards..are first salted and piled vp..in square heapes..which they terme, Bulking.
1881 Scotsman 12 Apr. 3/1 Complaints..made by those interested in the seal fishery against the bulking system.
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the world > space > extension in space > expansion or enlargement > [noun] > distension > swelling or swollenness
bolninga1340
bollingc1390
bossingc1440
tumour?1541
swelling1577
bulking1599
outswelling1611
swelth1631
turgescence1631
puffedness1648
intumescency1650
inturgescency1650
intumescence1656
obtumescence1657
bloatedness1660
tumefaction1666
turgescency1666
turgence1671
swell1683
tumidness1688
puffiness1699
tumidity1721
turgidity1732
inturgescence1755
tumescence1859
swollenness1902
1599 J. Minsheu Percyvall's Dict. Spanish & Eng. at Turma de tierra [The root] is found out by the bulking out of the earth.
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† bulkingadj.
Obsolete. rare.
Sleeping out on bulks; street-walking.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [adjective] > relating to or of nature of prostitute > practising prostitution
prostituting1646
bulking1677
night-walking1709
streetwalking1726
gay?1795
charvering1889
1677 T. D'Urfey Madam Fickle v. 51 Now will this damn'd bulking Quean be too witty for me.
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n.1599
adj.1677