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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
bloat1

▶verb cause to swell with fluid or gas. ▶noun a disease of livestock characterized by an accumulation of gas in the stomach.

– origin C17: from obs. bloat ‘swollen, soft’, perh. from ON blautr ‘soft, flabby’.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
bloat2

▶verb cure (a herring) by salting and smoking it lightly.

– origin C16: rel. to bloat herring ‘bloater’, of obscure origin.

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The Ballad of William Bloat
to bloat to an idle / thickening hide

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