"abulge" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /əˈbʌld͡ʒ/
Etymology: a- + bulge Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|a|bulge}} a- + bulge Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} abulge (not comparable)
  1. Bulging. Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-abulge-en-adj-4BK2dt6t Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with a-

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          "text": "1885, Alexander Stewart, ’Twixt Ben Nevis and Glencoe: The Natural History, Legends, and Folk-Lore of the West Highlands, Edinburgh: William Paterson, Chapter 46, p. 336,\nIt was a bright afternoon, with just enough wind over the quarter to set our lugsail well abulge, and make our little “Penguin” dance merrily over the rippling wavelets."
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          "ref": "1964, Clifford Lindsey Alderman, chapter 14, in The Vengeance of Abel Wright, Garden City, New York: Doubleday, page 186",
          "text": "One day that next spring, a long line of wagons jolted over the cartway north from Hadley. They were abulge with everything you could think of. I could see bedsteads and other furniture, rolls of bedding, pots, kettles with gallows crooks to hang them by in a fireplace.",
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          "ref": "2001, Niall Griffiths, Sheepshagger, New York: St. Martin’s Press, page 176",
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