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Definition hull

Etymology 1

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 *?el- (“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 ?????? (kaliti, “to cool, harden”)). For the sense development, compare French coque (“nutshell; ship's hull”), Ancient Greek ??????? (phás?los, “bean pod; yacht”).

Noun

hull (plural hulls)

1. The outer covering of a fruit or seed.
2. Any covering.

Verb

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.

Etymology 2

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

Noun

hull (plural hulls)

1. The body or frame of a vessel, such as a ship or plane.
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.

Verb

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.
2. (transitive) To hit (a ship) in the hull with cannon fire etc.

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