hulked
simple past tense and past participle of hulk
Source: Wiktionary
Hulk, n. Etym: [OE. hulke a heavy ship, AS. hulc a light, swift ship; akin to D. hulk a ship of burden, G. holk, OHG. holcho; perh. fr. LL. holcas, Gr. Wolf, Holcad.]
1. The body of a ship or decked vessel of any kind; esp., the body of an old vessel laid by as unfit for service. "Some well-timbered hulk." Spenser.
2. A heavy ship of clumsy build. Skeat.
3. Anything bulky or unwieldly. Shak. Shear hulk, an old ship fitted with an apparatus to fix or take out the masts of a ship.
– The hulks, old or dismasted ships, formerly used as prisons. [Eng.] Dickens.
Hulk, v. t. Etym: [Cf. MLG. holken to hollow out, Sw. hålka.]
Definition: To take out the entrails of; to disembowel; as, to hulk a hare. [R.] Beau. & Fl.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
26 December 2024
(noun) personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc)
Coffee starts as a yellow berry, changes into a red berry, and then is picked by hand to harvest. The red berry is de-shelled through a water soaking process and what’s left inside is the green coffee bean. This bean then dries in the sun for 3-5 days, where it is then packed and ready for sale.
