hull
(noun) the frame or body of ship
Hull, Kingston-upon Hull
(noun) a large fishing port in northeastern England
Hull, Cordell Hull
(noun) United States diplomat who did the groundwork for creating the United Nations (1871-1955)
Hull, Isaac Hull
(noun) United States naval officer who commanded the ‘Constitution’ during the War of 1812 and won a series of brilliant victories against the British (1773-1843)
hull
(noun) persistent enlarged calyx at base of e.g. a strawberry or raspberry
hull
(noun) dry outer covering of a fruit or seed or nut
hull
(verb) remove the hulls from; “hull the berries”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Hull (countable and uncountable, plural Hull)
A placename
A river in East Riding of Yorkshire, England, which flows into the Humber.
The common name of Kingston upon Hull, a port city and unitary authority in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
Hull, Quebec: The central business district and oldest neighborhood of Gatineau, Quebec, Canada.
Any of various cities in the United States
An unincorporated community in DeSoto County, Florida.
A city in Madison County, Georgia.
A village in Pike County, Illinois.
A city in Sioux County, Iowa.
A town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts.
An unincorporated community in Emmons County, North Dakota.
An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Liberty County, Texas.
An unincorporated community in McDowell County, West Virginia.
A town in Marathon County, Wisconsin.
A town in Portage County, Wisconsin.
(countable) A surname.
hull (plural hulls)
The outer covering of a fruit or seed.
Any covering.
• (outer covering of fruit or seed): peel, husk, shell
hull (third-person singular simple present hulls, present participle hulling, simple past and past participle hulled)
To remove the outer covering of a fruit or seed.
• (to remove hull of a fruit or seed): peel, husk, shell, shuck
Origin uncertain; perhaps the same word as Etymology 1, above.
hull (plural hulls)
The body or frame of a vessel, such as a ship or plane.
(mathematics, geometry, of a set A) The smallest set that possesses a particular property (such as convexity) and contains every point of A; slightly more formally, the intersection of all sets which possess the specified property and of which A is a subset.
• (frame of a vessel): fuselage (of a winged aircraft)
• (smallest set containing a given set of points): span
hull (third-person singular simple present hulls, present participle hulling, simple past and past participle hulled)
(obsolete, intransitive, nautical) To drift; to be carried by the impetus of wind or water on the ship's hull alone, with sails furled.
(transitive) To hit (a ship) in the hull with cannon fire etc.
Source: Wiktionary
Hull, n. Etym: [OE. hul, hol, shell, husk, AS. hulu; akin to G. hülle covering, husk, case, hüllen to cover, Goth. huljan to cover, AS. helan to hele, conceal. sq. root17. See Hele, v. t., Hell.]
1. The outer covering of anything, particularly of a nut or of grain; the outer skin of a kernel; the husk.
2. Etym: [In this sense perh. influenced by D. hol hold of a ship, E. hold.] (Naut.)
Definition: The frame or body of a vessel, exclusive of her masts, yards, sails, and rigging. Deep in their hulls our deadly bullets light. Dryden. Hull down, said of a ship so distant that her hull is concealed by the convexity of the sea.
Hull, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hulled; p. pr. & vb. n. Hulling.]
1. To strip off or separate the hull or hulls of; to free from integument; as, to hull corn.
2. To pierce the hull of, as a ship, with a cannon ball.
Hull, v. i.
Definition: To toss or drive on the water, like the hull of a ship without sails. [Obs.] Shak. Milton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
4 April 2025
(verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; “The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country”
The world’s most expensive coffee costs more than US$700 per kilogram. Asian palm civet – a cat-like creature in Indonesia, eats fruits, including select coffee cherries. It excretes partially digested seeds that produce a smooth, less acidic brew of coffee called kopi luwak.
