vbl. sb. Obs. exc. dial. [f. BOLK v.]
1. Belching, eructation, retching, vomiting.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., VII. xlviii. (1495), 260. Vnsauery bolkynges . by the whyche bolkinges the pacyente raueth.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 43. Bolkynge, or bulkynge, orexis, eructacio.
1519. Horman, Vulg., 32 b. It is a balkynge of yesterdays meate.
1561. Hollybush, Hom. Apoth., 33 b. A bulkinge or breakinge of winde.
1670. Lassels, Voy. Italy (1698), II. 174. Stones, which … Vesuvius … had vomited up with such a boaking.
1822. Galt, Steam-boat, 76 (Jam.). From morning to night, even between the bockings of the sea-sickness, she was aye speaking.
2. Heaving, throbbing.
1655. Gurnall, Chr. in Arm., II. 381. The invenomed head of sin’s arrow, that lies burning in conscience, and by its continual boking and throbbing there, keeps the poor sinner out of quiet.
