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bulk v Cp OED ~ v1 4 (1822, 1881) for senses 1 and 2 (a).
1 To place 'seal pelts' in a pile on the ice for collection
later; PAN v.
1860-1 Journ of Assembly Appendix, p. 526 No
young seals should be bulked before the 24th March... The present mode of bulking and
panning Seals before that date is ruinous to the country. 1873 CARROLL 32 No greater
injury can possibly be done to seal fishery than that of bulking seals on pans of ice, by
the crews of ice hunters. Thousands of seals were killed and bulked and never seen
afterwards.
2 Phr bulk up: (a) to place split and
salted cod-fish in piles or 'bulks' during curing process or, when dry, for storage; (b)
to stack firewood, etc, in a pile.
T 175/7-65 Well, you'd bulk up
a bundle o' [boughs) an' bring them out—bulk 'em up on the flake perhaps. T 148-65
They used to bring all their fish in [on the twentieth of] September—the salt fish,
an' bulk it up in store. M 68-22 He always used to saw off and cleave enough firewood
before Christmas to last for two weeks and bulk it up in the back porch.
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