4 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Hulk \Hulk\, v. t. [Cf. MLG. holken to hollow out, Sw. h[*a]lka.] To take out the entrails of; to disembowel; as, to hulk a hare. [R.] --Beau. & Fl. Hulking From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Hulk \Hulk\, n. [OE. hulke a heavy ship, AS. hulc a light, swift ship; akin to D. hulk a ship of burden, G. holk, OHG. holcho; perh. fr. LL. holcas, Gr. ?, prop., a ship which is towed, fr. ? to draw, drag, tow. Cf. {Wolf}, {Holcad}.] 1. The body of a ship or decked vessel of any kind; esp., the body of an old vessel laid by as unfit for service. "Some well-timbered hulk." --Spenser. [1913 Webster] 2. A heavy ship of clumsy build. --Skeat. [1913 Webster] 3. Anything bulky or unwieldly. --Shak. [1913 Webster] {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. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: hulk n 1: a very large person; impressive in size or qualities [syn: {giant}, {heavyweight}, {whale}] 2: a ship that has been wrecked and abandoned v : appear very large or occupy a commanding position; "The huge sculpture predominates over the fountain"; "Large shadows loomed on the canyon wall" [syn: {loom}, {tower}, {predominate}] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 52 Moby Thesaurus words for "hulk": anatomy, argosy, bark, boat, body, bones, bottom, bucket, carcass, clay, clod, corpus, craft, derelict, figure, flesh, form, frame, galoot, hooker, hull, jumbo, keel, klutz, leviathan, lout, material body, mere wreck, nervous wreck, oaf, ox, packet, person, physical body, physique, rattletrap, ruin, ruins, shell, ship, shipwreck, skeleton, soma, thumper, torso, trunk, tub, vessel, watercraft, whale, whopper, wreck
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