belk

See also: Belk and bełk

English

Etymology

See belch.

Verb

belk (third-person singular simple present belks, present participle belking, simple past and past participle belked)

1. (obsolete) To vomit.
   • 1567, Ovid, “The Fourteenth Booke”, in Arthur Golding, transl., The XV. Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, Entytuled Metamorphosis, […], London: […] Willyam Seres […], →OCLC:

     And in beholding how he fed and belked up againe
     His bloody vittells at his mouth, and uttred out amayne

References

• “belk”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.