HULL

n. v.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

The outer covering of anything, particularly of a nut or of grain; the outer skin of a kernel; the husk.

2.
n.

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.

3.
v.

To strip off or separate the hull or hulls of; to free from integument; as, to hull corn.

4.
v.

To pierce the hull of, as a ship, with a cannon ball.

5.
v.

To toss or drive on the water, like the hull of a ship without sails. [Obs.] Shak. Milton.

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