a ship that carries unpackaged cargo, usually consisting of a single dry commodity, such as coal or grain
Also called: bulker
bulker in American English
(ˈbʌlkər)
noun
Nautical informal
bulk carrier
Word origin
[1875–80; bulk + -er1]This word is first recorded in the period 1875–80. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: fan-tan, neoclassic, overdraft, slime mold, weekender-er is a suffix used in forming nouns designating persons from the object of their occupationor labor (hatter; tiler; tinner; moonshiner), or from their place of origin or abode (Icelander; southerner; villager), or designating either persons or things from some special characteristic or circumstance(six-footer; three-master; teetotaler; fiver; tenner)
Examples of 'bulker' in a sentence
bulker
These are relevant to investment and demolition decisions in both the bulker and container markets.
Lixian Fan, Sijie Zhang, Jingbo Yin 2018, 'Structural Analysis of Shipping Fleet Capacity', Journal of Advanced Transportationhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/3854090. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)