'Hulk' definitions:
Definition of 'hulk'
(from WordNet)
noun
noun
A ship that has been wrecked and abandoned
verb
Appear very large or occupy a commanding position; "The huge sculpture predominates over the fountain"; "Large shadows loomed on the canyon wall" [syn: loom, tower, predominate, hulk]
Definition of 'Hulk'
From: GCIDE
- Hulk \Hulk\, n. [OE. hulke a heavy ship, AS. hulc a light, swift ship; akin to D. hulk a ship of burden, G. holk, OHG. holcho; perh. fr. LL. holcas, Gr. ?, prop., a ship which is towed, fr. ? to draw, drag, tow. Cf. Wolf, Holcad.]
- 1. The body of a ship or decked vessel of any kind; esp., the body of an old vessel laid by as unfit for service. "Some well-timbered hulk." --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A heavy ship of clumsy build. --Skeat. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Anything bulky or unwieldly. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Shear hulk, an old ship fitted with an apparatus to fix or take out the masts of a ship.
- The hulks, old or dismasted ships, formerly used as prisons. [Eng.] --Dickens. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Hulk'
From: GCIDE
- Hulk \Hulk\, v. t. [Cf. MLG. holken to hollow out, Sw. h[*a]lka.] To take out the entrails of; to disembowel; as, to hulk a hare. [R.] --Beau. & Fl. Hulking
Synonyms of 'hulk'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- anatomy,
- argosy,
- bark,
- boat,
- body,
- bones,
- bottom,
- bucket,
- carcass,
- clay,
- clod,
- corpus,
- craft,
- derelict,
- figure,
- flesh,
- form,
- frame,
- galoot,
- hooker,
- hull,
- jumbo,
- keel,
- klutz,
- leviathan,
- lout,
- material body,
- mere wreck,
- nervous wreck,
- oaf,
- ox,
- packet,
- person,
- physical body,
- physique,
- rattletrap,
- ruin,
- ruins,
- shell,
- ship,
- shipwreck,
- skeleton,
- soma,
- thumper,
- torso,
- trunk,
- tub,
- vessel,
- watercraft,
- whale,
- whopper,
- wreck