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noun

Bulge n.

The bilge or protuberant part of a cask.

A swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, esp. when caused by pressure; as, a bulge in a wall.

(Naut.) The bilge of a vessel. See Bilge, 2.

Bulge ways. (Naut.) See Bilge ways.

verb

Bulge v. i. (past & past part. bulged; pres. part. bulging)

To swell or jut out; to bend outward, as a wall when it yields to pressure; to be protuberant; as, the wall bulges.

To bilge, as a ship; to founder. "And scattered navies bulge on distant shores."

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Etymology of 'Bulge'

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"Bulge" Quotes from Famous Books

... columns of steam blown straight upward through the stillness of the evening. It seemed bursting with light. Every little crack leaked it in generous streams, while the main illumination appeared fairly to bulge the walls outward. This was in itself nothing extraordinary, and indicated only the activity of those within, but while I looked an irregular patch of incandescence suddenly splashed the cliff opposite. For a single instant the very substance of the rock glowed white hot; then from ...

— The Mystery • Stewart Edward White and Samuel Hopkins Adams

... the bulge on me. Or maybe we've both got the bulge, somehow. You don't smoke me and I don't smoke you. You see, one of the boys has passed in his checks and we want to give him a good send-off, and so the thing I'm on now is to roust out ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... of cell division termed "budding" here deserves mention. It is well seen in the yeast-plant, where the cell bulges at one side, and this bulge becomes larger until it is nipped off from the parent by contraction at the point of junction, and is ...

— Scientific American Supplement, Vol. XXI., No. 531, March 6, 1886 • Various

... described him as lookin' a little odd she's said sumpun. Cyril was all of that. As far as figures goes he's big and impressive enough, with sort of a dignified bulge around the equator. But that face of his, with the white showin' through the pink, and the pink showin' through the white in the most unexpected places! Like a scraped radish. No, that don't give you the idea of his color scheme ...

— Wilt Thou Torchy • Sewell Ford

... two hours later that those in the Sky-Bird saw the coastline of Africa jutting out into the sea in a great bulge, and a little afterward they recognized landmarks agreeing with their chart. As they were slightly south of their course, Bob made the proper deviation, and in twenty minutes they were over a muddy field, marked with the looked-for white T, ...

— Around the World in Ten Days • Chelsea Curtis Fraser

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