hull

Plural: hulls

Noun

dry outer covering of a fruit or seed or nut
persistent enlarged calyx at base of e.g. a strawberry or raspberry
United States naval officer who commanded the `Constitution' during the War of 1812 and won a series of brilliant victories against the British (1773-1843)
United States diplomat who did the groundwork for creating the United Nations (1871-1955)
a large fishing port in northeastern England
the frame or body of ship
The outer covering of a fruit or seed.
Any covering.
The body or frame of a vessel, such as a ship or plane.
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

Verb Forms: hulled, hulling, hulls

To remove the outer covering, shell, or husk from something.
remove the hulls from
- "hull the berries"
To remove the outer covering of a fruit or seed.
To drift; to be carried by the impetus of wind or water on the ship's hull alone, with sails furled.
To hit (a ship) in the hull with cannon fire etc.

Examples

holomorphically convex hull; affine hull; injective hull
I tried to HULL the excess letters from my rack, but all seemed necessary for future plays.
She sat on the back porch hulling peanuts.
The orthogonal convex hull of an orthogonal polygon is the smallest orthogonally convex polygon that encloses the original polygon.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English hul, hulle, holle (“seed covering, hull of a ship”), from Old English hulu (“seed covering”), from Proto-Germanic *hul-, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover, hide”); or possibly from Proto-Indo-European *kal- (“hard”).
Compare Dutch hul (“hood”), German Hülle (“cover, wrap”), Hülse (“hull”); also 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”).

Synonyms

Cordell Hull, Isaac Hull, Kingston-upon Hull, fuselage, husk, peel, shell, shuck, span

Scrabble Score: 7

hull: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
hull: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
hull: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 9

hull: valid Words With Friends Word