bulk n
   4 Also: a quantity of logs, stored for winter fuel.
   1936 SMITH 15 I had to abandon school that winter and go in the woods to secure fuel for the home for the winter and coming summer. We didn't have far to go in those days, so I had a large bulk of wood in the backyard when the snow went in March.
   6 Phr in bulk; bulk pen: on a trawler, a large pen or 'pound' for placing cod-fish in layers of ice.
   1987 FIZZARD 160 Unlike the old markets where fish was sent in bulk, the new markets [of the 1930s] wanted their fish packed in wooden [casks]. 1986 Nfld's Deepsea Fishery 649 Bulk pen icing.

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