Obs. [prob. a variant of BULGE: perh. influenced by BUNCH, BOTCH.] A hump or swelling. Cf. BULGE sb.2
c. 1300. Body & Soul, in Map’s Poems (Wright), 34. They were ragged, roue, and tayled, with brode bulches [c. 1325 bunches] on here bak.
1600. Darrell, True Narr., 11. A foul ugly man with a white beard and a great Bulch on his brest.
1634. Brereton, Trav. (1844), I. 35. Dromedaries are ugly creatures, bulches behind and before.
1747. Hooson, Miner’s Dict., M ij. Ore, growing out on Knobs and Bulches.
