In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.
HULKED
Verb
hulked
simple past tense and past participle of hulk
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HULK
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. hĂĄlka.]
Definition: To take out the entrails of; to disembowel; as, to hulk a hare. [R.] Beau. & Fl.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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