[f. BULK v.1 + -ING1.]
1. The action or process of laying in heaps, or piling without package: also attrib. Cf. BULK v.1 5.
1602. Carew, Cornwall, 33 a. Pilchards … are first salted & piled vp … in square heapes … which they terme Bulking.
1881. Scotsman, 12 April, 3/1. Complaints … made by those interested in the seal fishery against the bulking system.
† 2. = BULGING, swelling out. Cf. BULK v.1 3.
1599. Minsheu, Sp. Dict. (1623), Turma de tierra … [The root] is found out by the bulking out of the earth.
