HULKING
hulking, hulky
(adjective) of great size and bulk; “a hulking figure of a man”; “three hulking battleships”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
hulking (not comparable)
Large and bulky, heavily built; massive.
Unwieldy.
Noun
hulking (plural hulkings)
A kind of sloping embankment used as a coastal defence.
Verb
hulking
present participle of hulk
Source: Wiktionary
Hulk"ing, Hulk"y, a.
Definition: Bulky; unwiedly. [R.] "A huge hulking fellow." H. Brooke.
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