Hull
[hʌl]
Definition
(noun.) the frame or body of ship.
(noun.) a large fishing port in northeastern England.
(noun.) United States diplomat who did the groundwork for creating the United Nations (1871-1955).
(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).
(noun.) persistent enlarged calyx at base of e.g. a strawberry or raspberry.
(noun.) dry outer covering of a fruit or seed or nut.
(verb.) remove the hulls from; 'hull the berries'.
Typed by Gus--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) The outer covering of anything, particularly of a nut or of grain; the outer skin of a kernel; the husk.
(v. t.) The frame or body of a vessel, exclusive of her masts, yards, sails, and rigging.
(v. t.) To strip off or separate the hull or hulls of; to free from integument; as, to hull corn.
(v. t.) To pierce the hull of, as a ship, with a cannon ball.
(v. i.) To toss or drive on the water, like the hull of a ship without sails.
Editor: Percival
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Husk, outer covering.[2]. Body of a vessel, HULK.
v. a. Peel, strip the hull from.
Checker: Lyman
Definition
n. the frame or body of a ship.—v.t. to pierce the hull (as with a cannon-ball).—v.i. to float or drive on the water as a mere hull.
n. the husk or outer covering of anything.—v.t. to strip off the hull: to husk.
Typed by Geraldine
Examples
- Furnace and Ashton built a boat, which plied on the river, between Hull and Beverley, for some time, and answered exceedingly well. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- They had kept her hull-up until sunset, firing several shots after her, but the next morning she was nowhere to be seen. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- A method of preventing in a great measure friction of water against the hull of a ship and incidentally preventing fouling by barnacles. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It is stated, that about the year 1787, experiments were made on the river Hull, by Furnace and Ashton, on the propulsion of vessels by steam power. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The hull was 133 feet long, 18 feet beam, and 7 feet depth. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Compasses are sometimes carried on masts in iron vessels as a means of removing them from the disturbing influence of the iron of the hull. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He engaged Charles Brownne, a ship-builder on the East River, to lay down the hull. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- He was lying on a heap of empty cartridge hulls but his head was protected by the rock and his body lay in the lee of the horse. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Jonathan Hulls and Oliver Evans (1789) had stern wheels. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- This was a steamer with two parallel hulls, decked across, and designed for greater steadiness in crossing the English Channel. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The woodcut which lays before you is a reduced copy of Hulls' draught of his steam-boat, as given in his book, a copy of which is preserved in the British Museum. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Jonathan Hulls patented in England in 1736 a marine steam engine, and in 1737 published a description of a Newcomen engine applied to his system for towing ships. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The ship lay very broad off, so we thought it better spooning before the sea, than trying or hulling. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
Checker: Tom