belly out

Verb

belly out (third-person singular simple present bellies out, present participle bellying out, simple past and past participle bellied out)

1. (intransitive) To bulge or billow outward.
   • […] the Shape of the Hive is recommended to be like an Egg, with one End cut off, as People order it when they are about to eat it, it may consist of twelve Straw-Wreaths or Rowls, according to the Bigness of it; the three first Rowls of one Magnitude, and about a Foot or somewhat more in Diameter...1733, The Dublin Society, chapter 2, in Instructions for Managing Bees, page 12
   • The most considerable and most elevated parts consist of six columns, the capitals of three of which belly out, while those of the three others, which are parallel to them, are guttered […]1803, Vivant Denon, chapter 16, in Arthur Aikin, transl., Travels in Upper and Lower Egypt, volume II, page 270
2. (transitive) To cause to bulge or billow outward.
   • The scene is changed and Fortune’s gale
     Shall belly out each prosperous sail.1834, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Happiness” (written in 1791), lines 30-31
   • Avoid a broadcloth shirt, in the shape of a shapeless garment with sleeves (one of the new fashions). It looks colic-y, with the wind bellying it out in all directions as you walk along.1845, Nathaniel Parker Willis, “The Republic of Broadway”, in Dashes at Life with a Free Pencil, 3rd edition, New York: J.S. Redfield, page 162