Hulk
[hʌlk]
Definition
(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.
(n.) A heavy ship of clumsy build.
(n.) Anything bulky or unwieldly.
(v. t.) To take out the entrails of; to disembowel; as, to hulk a hare.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Hull (of an old vessel).
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Definition
n. the body of a ship: an old ship unfit for service: a big lubberly fellow: anything unwieldy—often confounded in meaning with hull the body of a ship:—pl. The hulks old ships formerly used as prisons.—adjs. Hulk′ing Hulk′y clumsy.
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Examples
- If she is, it's because you wouldn't waste your time on an old hulk like me. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- By the light of the torches, we saw the black Hulk lying out a little way from the mud of the shore, like a wicked Noah's ark. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- But the extraordinary result appeared that five of these twelve shots struck the hulk. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- She lays close to the Endymion, between her and the Cleopatra, just to the eastward of the sheer hulk. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- She won't have anything to say to a battered old hulk like that, sir. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The target was the sunken hulk of the San Marcos, formerly the battleship Texas, which for several years had been used for similar purposes. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Then, as I looked up at it, while it dripped, it seemed to my oppressed conscience like a phantom devoting me to the Hulks. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Now, the Hulks has got its gentleman again, through me. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The hue and cry going off to the Hulks, and people coming thence to examine the iron, Joe's opinion was corroborated. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I tell you they are rascals: men fit to send to the hulks. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- From the Hulks! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Those among you who were prisoners in England can tell their comrades what frightful torments they suffered on board the English hulks. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- People are put in the Hulks because they murder, and because they rob, and forge, and do all sorts of bad; and they always begin by asking questions. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- And there's gentlemen in this town says they'd as soon dine with a fellow from the hulks. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Hulks are prison-ships, right 'cross th' meshes. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- And please, what's Hulks? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- She was hulked like a hawk in a cage, but her heart was fierce and undiminished within her, though her mind was destroyed. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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