hull

• IPA^(key): /hʌl/
• Rhymes: -ʌl

From Middle English hul (“seed covering”), from Old English hulu (“seed covering”), from Proto-Germanic *hul- (compare Dutch hul (“hood”), German Hülle, Hülse (“cover, veil”)), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover, hide”); or possibly from Proto-Indo-European *kal- (“hard”) (compare Old Irish calad, calath (“hard”), Latin callus, callum (“rough skin”), Old Church Slavonic калити (kaliti, “to cool, harden”)). For the sense development, compare French coque (“nutshell; ship's hull”), Ancient Greek φάσηλος (phásēlos, “bean pod; yacht”).

hull (plural hulls)

1. The outer covering of a fruit or seed

• (outer covering of fruit or seed): husk, shell

hull (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.

   She sat on the back porch hulling peanuts.

• (to remove hull of a fruit or seed): peel, husk, shell, shuck

Origin uncertain; perhaps the same word as Etymology 1, above.

hull (plural hulls)

1. The body or frame of a vessel, such as a ship or plane.
   • 1667, John Dryden, Annus Mirabilis, Quatrain 60, 1808, The Works of John Dryden, Volume 9, page 115,

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

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.

   The orthogonal convex hull of an orthogonal polygon is the smallest orthogonally convex polygon that encloses the original polygon.

   holomorphically convex hull; affine hull; injective hull

• (frame of a vessel): fuselage (of a winged aircraft)
• (smallest set containing a given set of points): span

• affine hull
• convex hull
• invective hull

hull (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.
   • 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 1, in The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:

     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.

   • c. 1612, William Shakespeare, Henry VIII, Act II, Scene 4,

     […] Thus hulling in

     The wild sea of my conscience, I did steer

     Toward this remedy, whereupon we are

     Now present here together:

   • 1716, Thomas Browne, Christian Morals, 2nd edition edited by Samuel Johnson, London: J. Payne, 1756, Part I, p. 8,

     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.

2. (transitive) To hit (a ship) in the hull with cannon fire etc.
   • 1774, George Shelvocke, The Voyage of Captain Shelvock Round the World in David Henry (ed.), An Historical Account of All the Voyages Round the World, Performed by English Navigators, London: F. Newbery, Volume 2, p. 163,

     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 […]

From Proto-Finnic *hullu. Cognate to Finnish hullu and Livonian ull.

hull (genitive hullu, partitive hullu)

1. crazy, mad

• hullik

• IPA^(key): [ˈhulː]

hull

1. (intransitive) to fall

   Hull a hó. ― It's snowing. (Literally: The snow is falling.)

   térdre hull ― to fall on one's knees

2. (of tears) to flow
3. (of hair) to fall out
4. (intransitive) to die

   Hullanak, mint a legyek. ― They are dying off like flies.

or

• hulla
• hulladék
• hullat
• hulldogál

(With verbal prefixes):

• elhull
• kihull
• lehull

From Old Norse hól

• hol

hull n (definite singular hullet, indefinite plural hull or huller, definite plural hulla or hullene)

1. a hole

hull

1. imperative of hulle

• hòl (Nynorsk)

• “hull” in The Bokmål Dictionary.