HULK

n. v.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

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.
n.

A heavy ship of clumsy build. Skeat.

3.
n.

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.

4.
v.

To take out the entrails of; to disembowel; as, to hulk a hare. [R.] Beau. & Fl.

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