belly out

== English == === Verb === belly out (third-person singular simple present bellies out, present participle bellying out, simple past and past participle bellied out) (intransitive) To bulge or billow outward. 1944, Caleb Milne, “I Dream of the Day...” Letters from Caleb Milne, Africa, 1942-1943, Woodstock, NY: Van Rees Press, Chapter 4, p. 21,[3] Now and then the street bellies out into an ancient lime-stone square filled with fiacres and peddlers, pausing in the loud sunshine. (transitive) To cause to bulge or billow outward. 1834, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Happiness” (written in 1791), lines 30-31,[4] The scene is changed and Fortune’s gale Shall belly out each prosperous sail.