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bellied

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bellied
bell gable
Having a convex or bulging form.
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As they went cutting sidewise through the water, the sails bellied taut, with the wind filling and overflowing them.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories by Chopin, Kate View in context
In a kind of stupor I watched all hands take to the rigging, and slowly but surely she came round to the wind; the sails fluttered, and then bellied out as the wind came into them.
The Island of Doctor Moreau by Wells, H.G. View in context
The wind blew freshly from the east, with a very keen edge to it; and the great sail bellied roundly out, laying the vessel over until the water hissed beneath her lee bulwarks.
The White Company by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
 
 
 
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