HULL

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

Proper noun

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.

Etymology 1

Noun

hull (plural hulls)

The outer covering of a fruit or seed.

Any covering.

Synonyms

• (outer covering of fruit or seed): peel, husk, shell

Verb

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.

Synonyms

• (to remove hull of a fruit or seed): peel, husk, shell, shuck

Etymology 2

Origin uncertain; perhaps the same word as Etymology 1, above.

Noun

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.

Synonyms

• (frame of a vessel): fuselage (of a winged aircraft)

• (smallest set containing a given set of points): span

Verb

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

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