ppl. a. Also 5 bolgit. [f. BULGE v. + -ED1.]

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  1.  Forced into a protuberance; swollen.

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1436.  Pol. Poems (1859), II. 155. They com … With bolgit schipis ful craftly.

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1821.  Clare, Vill. Minstr., I. 213. The crack’d wall, bulg’d and bow’d.

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1872.  Ruskin, Eagle’s N., § 86. The wood-carvers … adopted this bulged form.

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  † 2.  Of a ship: With the bottom or sides stove in.

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1618.  Bolton, Florus (1636), 315. The huge Armada, bulged, and split in the fight.

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1730–6.  Bailey, Bulged [spoken of a ship] when she has struck off some of her Timber upon a Rock.

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1790.  Beatson, Nav. & Mil. Mem., I. 276. As she was bulged he could not bring her off.

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