What does "hulk" mean?
Hulk: A heavy ship of clumsy build. Skeat.
Additional senses
- 2.Anything bulky or unwieldly. Shak. 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.] Dickens.
- 3.To take out the entrails of; to disembowel; as, to hulk a hare. [R.] Beau. & Fl.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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