break bulk
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Until the late 1990s, fresh produce was shipped on break bulk ships—general cargo vessels with big refrigerated spaces—from the production site to a single destination.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2018
In ten days to three weeks, according to weather and size of the meat, break bulk and resalt, using the old salt again, with just a little new salt added.
From Home Pork Making by A. W. Fulton
I am sure it is rara avis, for if you once "break bulk," as they phrase it, you are in again for all.
From The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims Volume I (of II) by Andrew Steinmetz
Then," said Harry, "the lugger doesna break bulk here, nor at Embleton outher—that's flat.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 11 by John Mackay Wilson
The delay and expense to which merchants are subjected, when obliged to "break bulk" repeatedly between the port whence they sail and that of their destination, is extreme.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various
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