bellying
- v swell out or bulge out
- s curving outward
- For the weary battalions of Marines bellying through the chunks of rubble, progress was slow and costly in lives.
- Leaning gallantly aslant, flouncing a foamy white ruffle at her gay forefoot, her great bellying sails stretched taut aloft, Brittannia rushed past the finish buoy off .
- Even a former subsidiary of Lehman Brothers, which helped underwrite the subprime toxic loans, is bellying up to the bar, the report said.