bulbul2 (bulbul)

[E. Ind.] A name given to the yak. bulk bælg, a bag, etc. (> E. bellows, belly ), and prob. to Icel. baggi, etc., E. bag1: see belly, bellows, bag1, bouge1, budge2, and bilge.] 1. A rounded protuberance; a swelling; a swell; a hump. His nese was cutted as a cat, His browes war like litel buskes, And his tet he like bare tuskes, A ful grete bulge opon his bak. Ywaine and Gawin (ed. Ritson, 1802), 1. 260. We advanced half a mile, and encamped temporarily in a hill-girt bulge of the flumara bed. R. F. Burton, El-Medinah, p. 362. 2. The swirl made by a salmon rising to the surface. Sportsman's Gazetteer.- To get the bulge on one, to get the advantage of a person; fore stall and get the better of one. [Slang.]