Definition of "hull"

hull¹

/hʌl/

noun
plural hulls
1. The outer covering of a fruit or seed.
2. Any covering.
verb
third-person singular simple present hulls, present participle hulling, simple past and past participle hulled
1. To remove the outer covering of a fruit or seed.

hull²

/hʌl/

noun
plural hulls
1. The body or frame of a vessel, such as a ship or plane.
  Quotations
  Deep in their hulls our deadly bullets light, / And through the yielding planks a passage find.
  1667, John Dryden, Annus Mirabilis, Quatrain 60, 1808, The Works of John Dryden, Volume 9, page 115
2. (mathematics, geometry, of a set A) The smallest set that possesses a particular property (such as convexity) and contains every point of A; slightly more formally, the intersection of all sets which possess the specified property and of which A is a subset.
verb
third-person singular simple present hulls, present participle hulling, simple past and past participle hulled
1. (obsolete, intransitive, nautical) To drift; to be carried by the impetus of wind or water on the ship's hull alone, with sails furled.
  Quotations
  We goe not, but we are carried: as things that flote, now gliding gently, now hulling violently, according as the water is, either stormy or calme.
  1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 1, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […]
  […] Thus hulling inThe wild sea of my conscience, I did steerToward this remedy, whereupon we areNow present here together:
  1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene iv]
  In this virtuous voyage of life hull not about like the ark, without the use of rudder, mast, or sail, and bound for no port.
  1716, Thomas Browne, edited by Samuel Johnson, Christian Morals‎, 2nd edition, London: J. Payne, published 1756, Part I, p. 8
2. (transitive) To hit (a ship) in the hull with cannon fire etc.
  Quotations
  During this action, we had not a man killed or wounded, although the enemy often hulled us, and once, in particular, a shot coming into one of our ports, dismounted one of our guns between decks […]
  1774, George Shelvocke, “The Voyage of Captain Shelvock Round the World”, in David Henry, editor, An Historical Account of All the Voyages Round the World, Performed by English Navigators‎, volume 2, London: F. Newbery, page 163

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