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Definition of Bulker
1. n. A person employed to ascertain the bulk or size of goods, in order to fix the amount of freight or dues payable on them.
Definition of Bulker
1. Noun. (nautical) A bulk dry goods cargo ship. ¹
2. Noun. (nautical) A person employed to ascertain the bulk or size of goods, in order to fix the amount of freight or dues payable on them. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bulker
1. a street thief [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bulker
Literary usage of Bulker
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Records of the Borough of Nottingham: Being a Series of Extracts from the by Nottingham (England). (1885)
"John Strelley, esquire, Nicholas Strelley, knight, and Thomas Strelley, esquire,
complain of Cecily bulker and William bulker, ..."
2. The Works of Tobias Smollett by Tobias George Smollett, William Ernest Henley (1899)
"So he is careful to note, among other amenities, that Fielding had certainly been
a bulker, and, among other shifts, had blown a trumpet at Bartholomew Fair ..."
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