belk

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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)

(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.

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