Belching ppl. a.

also 6 belking, bealking. [f. as prec. + -ING².] That belches, eructates, etc. (Cf. the various meanings of the vb.)

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1581. Studley, Seneca’s Hippolitus, 71. The belking Seas yell out.

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1585. Lloyd, Treas. Health, I v. A weake bealkyng stomake.

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1601. R. Yarrington, Two Traj., VI. vi. in Bullen, O. Pl., IV. That belching voice, that harsh night-raven sound.

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1697. Dryden, Æneid, VII. 1073 (J.).

	A triple Pile of Plumes his Crest adorn’d,
	On which with belching flames Chimæra burn’d.

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1833. Ht. Martineau, Tale of Tyne, iii. 45. To face the belching cannon.

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