Hull

Quick meaning: Hull is a noun meaning The outer covering of a fruit or seed.

Meaning

The outer covering of a fruit or seed.

More Meanings

1. Any covering.
2. To remove the outer covering of a fruit or seed.
3. (nautical, aviation) The body or frame of a vessel, such as a ship or plane.
4. (transitive) To hit (a ship) in the hull with cannon fire etc.
5. (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.
6. (obsolete, intransitive, nautical) To drift; to be carried by the impetus of wind or water on the ship's hull alone, with sails furled.

Example Sentences

She sat on the back porch hulling peanuts.

holomorphically convex hull; affine hull; injective hull

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

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.

Word Forms

• hulls
• hulling
• hulled

Synonyms for hull

Depending on context, synonyms include peel, husk, shell, shuck, fuselage, span.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include seed, pod, shell, clam, coke, sarcophagus.

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