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BULKER

Definition: BULKER

BULKER

Noun

1. A person employed to ascertain the bulk or size of goods, in order to fix the amount of freight or dues payable on them.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

"BULKER" is a common misspelling or typo for: baulker, bilker, bulked, bunker.


Specialty Definitions: BULKER

DomainDefinitions

Occupations

Fills $T3bulking cell$T1 with stemmed and cased tobacco: Directs conveyor tube into cell and spreads tobacco in cell, using handfork. Positions hydraulic press over tobacco and pulls lever to activate press to pack tobacco into bulk for fermentation. (references)

Slang in 1811

BULKER. One who lodges all night on a bulk or projection before old-fashioned shop windows. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: BULKER

Specialty definitions using "BULKER": BULKER, BULKER, CUT TOBACCO. (references)

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Usage Frequency: BULKER

"BULKER" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "BULKER" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BULKER

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

bulker

8
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Rhyming with "BULKER"

Words rhyming with "BULKER" (pronounced 'Bulk"er'): Abaser, Abater, Abider, Abjurer, Abridger, Absconder, Absenter, Absolver, Absorber, Abstainer, Abstracter, Abuser, Acceder, Accepter, Acclaimer, Accorder, Accruer, Accuser, Achiever, Acquirer, Adherer, Adjudger, Adjurer, Adjuster, Admirer, Adopter, Adorer, Adorner, Advertiser, Adviser, Advoyer, Affecter, Affirmer, Afflicter, Affrayer, Affreighter, Affrighter, Affronter, Aflicker, Agreer, Aider, Aimer, Airer, Aliner, Allayer, Alleger, Allower, Allurer, Altogether, Amasser. (additional references)

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Anagrams: BULKER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-e-k-l-r-u"

-1 letter: bluer, burke, ruble.

-2 letters: blue, blur, bulk, burl, kerb, leku, lube, lure, lurk, rube, rule.

-3 letters: bel, bur, elk, kue, lek, leu, reb, rub, rue, uke, urb.

-4 letters: be, el, er, re.

 Words containing the letters "b-e-k-l-r-u"
 

+1 letter: buckler, bulkier, burlesk.

 

+2 letters: baulkier, bucklers, burlesks, rubylike, subclerk.

 

+3 letters: berkelium, bucklered, bulwarked, cocklebur, parbuckle, subclerks.

 

+4 letters: berkeliums, bucklering, buttermilk, cherublike, cockleburs, lumberjack, parbuckled, parbuckles, rubberlike, superblock, turnbuckle, turtleback, unworkable.

 

+5 letters: blockbuster, bloodsucker, buttermilks, huckleberry, lumberjacks, superblocks, turnbuckles, turtlebacks, unbreakable, undrinkable, unworkables.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: BULKER


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 55 4C 4B 45 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    ..-    .-..    -.-    .    .-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01010101 01001100 01001011 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#85 &#76 &#75 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0055 004C 004B 0045 0052

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

365546453952

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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