Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who bulks tobacco, fish, or the like.
  • noun Nautical, a person employed to determine the quantity or bulk of goods, so as to fix the amount of freight- or shore-dues to which they are liable.
  • noun A beam.
  • noun A butcher's stall.
  • noun One who sleeps under bulks or benches; a night-walker.
  • noun A common strumpet or jilt.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Naut.) A person employed to ascertain the bulk or size of goods, in order to fix the amount of freight or dues payable on them.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun nautical A bulk dry goods cargo ship.
  • 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.

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Examples

  • Are we anticipating that some German or Russian eco-tourism ship or a convience-flag bulker will refuse to conform to the Arctic Waters Pollution Prevention Regulations and will have to be coerced with a 57 mm gun?

    Archive 2007-07-01 2007

  • Are we anticipating that some German or Russian eco-tourism ship or a convience-flag bulker will refuse to conform to the Arctic Waters Pollution Prevention Regulations and will have to be coerced with a 57 mm gun?

    What the Arctic Offshore Patrol Ships (A/OPSs) are all about 2007

  • Given the merger agreement with Crude Carriers, along with the acquisition of the Cape Agamemnon the 2010 built Capesize bulker -- on charter to Cosco, the current annual distribution guidance for CPLP of $0.93 remains sustainable.

    unknown title 2011

  • Pan Ocean Co., South Korea's biggest bulk carrier, and said lower bulker rates will hurt earnings.

    Asia Exports Cooling Damps Commodity Shipping Outlook - Bloomberg 2011

  • "We think dry bulker rates are close to rebounding after bottoming, while dry bulker futures have already started an across-the-board rebound," Seigo Ando, an analyst at Deutsche Bank AG., wrote in a report dated yesterday.

    BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2011

  • They downgraded STX Pan Ocean Co., South Korea's biggest bulk carrier, and said lower bulker rates will hurt earnings.

    BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2011

  • For some security, DRYS (bulker side) would be best served by keeping at least a portion of OCR shares (say 25%) of any listing/spin-off until the drybulk sector returns to some stability.

    unknown title 2011

  • "The ordered cranes are MacGregor GLB cranes and they offer an efficient and reliable cargo handling solution to our customers", says Paul Söderstedt, Sales Manager for bulker cranes at Cargotec.

    Reuters: Press Release 2011

  • The Company sold the 70,349 DWT Panamax bulker M.V. Iguana (built in 1996) for a price of

    Marketwire - Breaking News Releases 2010

  • The Company sold the 70,349 DWT Panamax bulker M.V. Iguana (built in 1996) for a price of

    Marketwire - Breaking News Releases 2010

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