Definition of Hull

n.1.The outer covering of anything, particularly of a nut or of grain; the outer skin of a kernel; the husk.
2.(Naut.) 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.
v. t.1.To strip off or separate the hull or hulls of; to free from integument; as, to hull corn.
[imp. & p. p. Hulled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Hulling.]
2.To pierce the hull of, as a ship, with a cannon ball.
v. i.1.To toss or drive on the water, like the hull of a ship without sails.


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