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Hulk   /həlk/   Listen
noun
Hulk  n.  
1.
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."
2.
A heavy ship of clumsy build.
3.
Anything bulky or unwieldly.
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.)



verb
Hulk  v. t.  To take out the entrails of; to disembowel; as, to hulk a hare. (R.)






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"Hulk" Quotes from Famous Books



... wear out, circuits would short, and one by one the killers would crunch to a halt. A few birds would still fly then, but a unique animal life, rare in the universe, would exist no more. And the bones of children, eager girls, and their men would also lie, beside a rusty hulk, ...
— Survival Tactics • Al Sevcik

... of her machinery and converted into a sailing vessel, and was broken up in New York last year. The Adriatic, the "queen of the fleet," made less than a half dozen voyages, was sold to the Galway Company, and is now used in the Western Islands as a coal hulk by an ...
— Scientific American, Volume XLIII., No. 25, December 18, 1880 • Various

... sold in that port. The first intimation the brig's crew had that Captain Semmes was about to cast off his tow was a warning whistle from the Sumter. This was followed by a sudden slackening of the hawser, and a few minutes later the Sumter's black hulk showed itself on the starboard bow. She ...
— Marcy The Blockade Runner • Harry Castlemon

... this hulk, I won't, doctor. I hope I'll have a new command pretty soon. I'm trustin' in my owners and I guess they'll do the fair thing by me. Halloo, Gracie, girl! Well, your old uncle's on his beam ...
— Keziah Coffin • Joseph C. Lincoln

... resignation; nor, Sir Wilfull, your right. You may draw your fox if you please, sir, and make a bear-garden flourish somewhere else; for here it will not avail. This, my Lady Wishfort, must be subscribed, or your darling daughter's turned adrift, like a leaky hulk to sink or swim, as she and the current of ...
— The Way of the World • William Congreve


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