Hulk

Quick meaning: Hulk is a noun meaning A large ship used for transportation; (more generally) a large ship that is difficult to manoeuvre.

Meaning

A large ship used for transportation; (more generally) a large ship that is difficult to manoeuvre.

More Meanings

1. A non-functional but floating ship, usually stripped of equipment and rigging, and often put to other uses such as accommodation or storage.
2. (figuratively) A large structure with a dominating presence.
3. (figuratively) A big (and possibly clumsy) person.
4. To reduce (a ship) to a non-functional hulk.
5. To temporarily house (goods, people, etc.) in such a hulk.
6. (transitive) To move (a large, hulking body).
7. (intransitive) To be a hulk, that is, a large, hulking, and often imposing presence.

Example Sentences

Light boates ſaile ſwift, though greater hulkes draw deepe.

They could see the lighthouse shining on Quarantine Island, and the green lights on the old coal hulks.

Their ſhips thus ſet on ſhore (to fruſtrate their deſire) / Thoſe Daniſh Hulkes became the food of Engliſh fire.

No further additions were made to this group, and by 1729 the Rank was extinct (the last to be struck was the Ludlow, which had been hulked in 1719).

Word Forms

• hulks
• hulke
• hulking
• hulked

Synonyms for hulk

Depending on context, synonyms include loom, tower, whale, heavyweight, giant.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include loom, tower, heavyweight, giant, whale, superman.

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