Definitions for Hull

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Hull hull

Spelling: [huhl]

IPA: /hʌl/

Hull is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 13 anagrams from letters in Hull (hllu).

Definitions for Hull

noun

1. the husk, shell, or outer covering of a seed or fruit.
2. the calyx of certain fruits, as the strawberry.
3. any covering or envelope.
4. the hollow, lowermost portion of a ship, floating partially submerged and supporting the remainder of the ship.
5. Aeronautics. the boatlike fuselage of a flying boat on which the plane lands or takes off. the cigar-shaped arrangement of girders enclosing the gasbag of a rigid dirigible.
6. Cordell [kawr-del,, kawr-del] /ˈkɔr dɛl,, kɔrˈdɛl/ (Show IPA), 1871–1955, U.S. statesman: secretary of state 1933–44; Nobel Peace Prize 1945.
7. Robert Marvin ("Bobby") born 1939, Canadian ice-hockey player.
8. William, 1753–1825, U.S. general.
9. Official name Kingston-upon-Hull. a seaport in Humberside, in E England, on the Humber River.
10. a city in SE Canada, on the Ottawa River opposite Ottawa.

Idioms

1. hull down, (of a ship) sufficiently far away, or below the horizon, that the hull is invisible.
2. hull up, (of a ship) sufficiently near, or above the horizon, that the hull is visible.

verb (used with object)

1. to remove the hull of.
2. Midland U.S. to shell (peas or beans).
3. to pierce (the hull of a ship), especially below the water line.

verb (used without object)

1. to drift without power or sails.

Origin of Hull

before 1000; Middle English; Old English hulu husk, pod; akin to Old English helan to cover, hide, Latin cēlāre to hide, conceal, Greek kalýptein to cover up (see

Examples for Hull

In the initial stages of building, the hull was upside down.

It was like a ship with too many masts and sails and too small a hull.

“When some of those surgeries were first done using the help of our technology, it was really touching for me,” as hull put it.

Jimbo and I walked up its ramp and into the hull, which looked like the gutted inside of a school bus.

In 1658, he was selected by his townsmen of hull to represent them in Parliament.

Meanwhile, the rest of hull is wide at the waterline and slopes inward.

The tug's hull was practically filled with a maze of machinery.

No knife, no rocket pistol, no line with magnet for securing oneself to a hull.

Having received a patent on the technology in 1986, hull founded 3D Systems to commercialize his discoveries.

Four of them carried a thick black nylon body bag, two to a side, and loaded it into the middle of the hull.