What does hull mean?

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. hullnoun

    dry outer covering of a fruit or seed or nut

  2. hullnoun

    persistent enlarged calyx at base of e.g. a strawberry or raspberry

  3. Hull, Isaac Hullnoun

    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)

  4. Hull, Cordell Hullnoun

    United States diplomat who did the groundwork for creating the United Nations (1871-1955)

  5. Hull, Kingston-upon Hullnoun

    a large fishing port in northeastern England

  6. hullverb

    the frame or body of ship

  7. hullverb

    remove the hulls from

    "hull the berries"

Wiktionary

  1. Hullnoun

    Any of various cities in the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States (see the Wikipedia article).

  2. Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps the same word as Etymology 1, above.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Hullnoun

    Etymology: hulgan, Gothick, to cover.

    Deep in their hulls our deadly bullets light,
    And through the yielding planks a passage find. Dryden.

    So many arts hath the Divine Wisdom put together, only for the hull and tackle of a sensible and thinking creature. Nehemiah Grew, Cosmol. Sac. b. i. c. 5.

  2. To Hullverb

    To float; to drive to and fro upon the water without sails or rudder.

    Etymology: from the noun.

    They saw a sight full of piteous strangeness; a ship, or rather the carcase of the ship, or rather some few bones of the carcase, hulling there, part broken, part burned, and part drowned. Philip Sidney.

    Will you hoist sail, sir? here lies your way.
    —— No, good swabber, I am to hull here a little longer. William Shakespeare.

    He look’d, and saw the ark hull on the flood,
    Which now abated. John Milton, Parad. Lost, b. xi.

    People walking down upon the shore, saw somewhat come hulling toward them. Roger L'Estrange.

ChatGPT

  1. hull

    A hull refers to the outer covering or framework that provides structure and support to an object, typically a vehicle or vessel such as a ship, aircraft, or submarine. It acts as a protective and watertight enclosure, enclosing the inner components and ensuring buoyancy in water-based vehicles. The hull is often made from sturdy materials such as metal, plastic, or reinforced composite materials to withstand external forces and maintain the integrity of the object.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Hullverb

    the outer covering of anything, particularly of a nut or of grain; the outer skin of a kernel; the husk

  2. Hullverb

    the frame or body of a vessel, exclusive of her masts, yards, sails, and rigging

  3. Hullverb

    to strip off or separate the hull or hulls of; to free from integument; as, to hull corn

  4. Hullverb

    to pierce the hull of, as a ship, with a cannon ball

  5. Hullverb

    to toss or drive on the water, like the hull of a ship without sails

  6. Etymology: [OE. hul, hol, shell, husk, AS. hulu; akin to G. hlle covering, husk, case, hllen to cover, Goth. huljan to cover, AS. helan to hele, conceal. 17. See Hele, v. t., Hell.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Hull

    hul, n. the husk or outer covering of anything.—v.t. to strip off the hull: to husk. [A.S. hulu, a husk, as of corn—helan, to cover; Ger. hülle, a covering, hehlen, to cover.]

  2. Hull

    hul, 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. [Same word as above, perh. modified in meaning by confusion with Dut. hol, a ship's hold, or with hulk.]

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Hull

    or Kingston-Upon-Hull (260), a flourishing river-port in the E. Riding of Yorkshire, at the junction of the Hull with the Humber, 42 m. SE. of York; is an old town, and has many interesting churches, statues, and public buildings; is the third port of the kingdom; has immense docks, is the principal outlet for the woollen and cotton goods of the Midlands, and does a great trade with the Baltic and Germany; has flourishing shipbuilding yards, rope and canvas factories, sugar refineries, oil-mills, etc., and is an important centre of the east coast fisheries.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. hull

    The Gothic hulga meant a husk or external covering, and hence the body of a ship, independent of masts, yards, sails, rigging, and other furniture, is so called.--To hull, signifies to hit with shot; to drive to and fro without rudder, sail, or oar; as Milton-- "He looked and saw the ark hull on the flood." --To strike hull in a storm, is to take in her sails and lash the helm on the lee side of the ship, which is termed to lie a-hull.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. hull

    A seaport town of England, in Yorkshire, situated on the great inlet of the Humber, at the point where it is entered by the river Hull. It is a very ancient town; during the civil war it declared for the Parliament, and sustained two severe sieges by the royalists.

Editors Contribution

  1. hull

    A type of structure created and designed in various colors, materials, mechanisms, shapes, sizes and styles.

    The hull of the ship was easily visible from the harbour.


    Submitted by MaryC on December 26, 2019  


  2. hull

    An element of a fruit, seed or nut.

    The hull of the grain is changed during the process of transforming it to a cereal.


    Submitted by MaryC on December 26, 2019  

Etymology and Origins

  1. Hull

    From the river upon which it stands. Its ancient name was Kingston-upon-Hull, a town founded by Edward I. in 1299.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. HULL

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Hull is ranked #807 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Hull surname appeared 43,018 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 15 would have the surname Hull.

    85.5% or 36,798 total occurrences were White.
    8.6% or 3,708 total occurrences were Black.
    2.6% or 1,118 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    1.8% or 809 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    0.7% or 318 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
    0.6% or 267 total occurrences were Asian.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of hull in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of hull in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of hull in a Sentence

  1. Sarah Bajc:

    After a year and a half of ambiguity and disparate theories, I would rather have certainty than doubt, At least now there seems to be evidence that the plane did go in the water. I do wonder why it took so long. I also still wonder where the hull of the plane and the bodies are, and what happened.

  2. Laura Davies:

    I'm disgusted, we have got our best player, Charley Hull, who has just won a point, and she is in floods of tears. That tells you the wrong thing was done.

  3. Patrizia Heidegger:

    We have documented a lot of accidents caused by falling steel blocks under which workers are crushed, there are fires and explosions caused by the unsafe handling of gas cylinders or the use of open fire inside the hull without testing the level of inflammable gases.

  4. Wesley D'Amico:

    If the boat is going to sink, there is no point in patching the hull.”

  5. Shelby Oakley:

    They conceived it as not just having new systems on board, but alternating the shape of the hull and how it was going to move through the water, that was truly revolutionary.

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