(n.) A person employed to ascertain the bulk or size of goods, in order to fix the amount of freight or dues payable on them.
Example Sentences:
(1) The response of these three groups of animals to a diet diluted with 20% alpha cell, a nonnutritive bulker, showed an initial failure to meter calories by both VMN and DMN rats which, however, was compensated for during the remainder of the 24-hr test period.
(2) Levander said the technology would be used on cargo cable ferries (which are guided across rivers on cables) within the next couple of years, "but the real benefit will be in ocean going tankers and bulkers", where remote control would cut operating costs by up to 30%.
(3) However, it is still an effective stool bulker and acts mainly by increasing faecal water by some unknown mechanism.
Sulker
Definition:
(n.) One who sulks.
Example Sentences:
(1) I’d be going nuts and, after a while, the coaches would have to tell me: ‘You can’t do this, you can’t behave this way if you want to play in the big leagues.’ I was a sulker.
(2) You’re our centre-forward.’ If he plays there, he scores goals.” Scholes further defended his former Manchester United team-mate stating that “Wayne will play anywhere he’s asked” and that he is not “a moaner or a sulker” but despite the result, the former midfielder was encouraged at some of the performances of the younger players and feels there is “more to come” from the squad ahead of their crucial clash with Uruguay on Thursday.