Obs. rare. Also 6 sulke, sulck. [ad. L. sulcāre to plough, furrow, f. sulcus furrow.] trans. To plough (the seas). Also intr., sometimes with it.
1579. Poor Knight’s Palace, etc., K iv b. To sulke the seas and furrow foming floods. Ibid., L ij b. While saylers sulke upon the seas.
1582. Stanyhurst, Æneis, II. (Arb.), 50. Two serpents monsterus ouglye Plasht the water sulcking to the shoare moste hastelye swinging.
1622. Drayton, Poly-olb., i. 422. They … keep Upon the lee-ward still, and (sulking up the deep) For Mauritania make.
1682. Earl Argyle, To Lady Lindsay, in Law’s Mem. (1818), 213. Our admirall, though tide and wind say nay, He’ll row and work, and sulk it all the way.
Hence † Sulking ppl. a., ploughing (the land).
1582. Stanyhurst, Æneis, I. 1. (I) forced Thee sulcking swincker thee soyle, thoghe craggie, to sunder.
