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Answer for the clue "Big Southern department store chain ", 4 letters:
belk

Word definitions for belk in dictionaries

Gazetteer Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 214 Housing Units (2000): 111 Land area (2000): 1.330210 sq. miles (3.445227 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 1.330210 sq. miles (3.445227 sq. km) FIPS code: 05164 Located within: Alabama ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Belk \Belk\, v. t. [See Belch .] To vomit. [Obs.]

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Belk, Inc. (stylized as belk ) is an American mid-range to upscale department store chain founded in 1888 by William Henry Belk in Monroe, North Carolina . It is a large family owned and operated department store company, with 299 locations in 16 states. ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (context obsolete English) To vomit.

Usage examples of belk.

After returning from the scene he had started to tell Belk about the discovery.

But Belk had cut him off, telling him that the less he knew the better.

For a while she had even lost Belk, who sat next to Bosch paging through his own yellow pad and rehearsing his opener in his head.

Bosch had often wondered during the jury selection if the sweating was Belk's response to the burden of weight he carried or the burden of trying a case against Chandler and before Judge Keyes.

Even if it turned out there was no danger, no gun beneath the pillow, Belk said, Church's own actions created the climate of danger that allowed Bosch to act as he did.

He would have liked to ask Belk what it meant but he did not like Belk and knew he would feel uncomfortable asking his opinion on anything.

The paneled door opened and the judge came out before Belk could answer.

Bosch noticed that Belk was alternately taking notes on one pad in front of him and writing down questions on another.

Bosch bent close to Belk and whispered, 'He's fucking me because he didn't get to shoot Church himself.

And they might be distracted, thinking about what just happened, when Belk stepped up to repair Amado's testimony.

His private reading had come after Belk had argued for an hour against the inclusion of the note in the trial.

Because it was new evidence from Wieczorek, not contained in his deposition, Chandler would have had to inform Belk earlier if she planned to draw it out on direct examination.

Instead, she had skillfully allowed Belk to blunder in and draw it out.

Judge Keyes denied his claim, pointing out what everyone knew, that it had been Belk who had brought the tape to light.

After Judge Keyes dismissed one more objection from Belk, she rolled a TV/VCR combination to a position in front of the jury box and put in the tape, which Wieczorek had retrieved from a friend sitting in the gallery.