† hulkn.¹

Brit.

/hʌlk/, U.S.

/həlk/

Forms: Old English hulc, Middle English– hulk; also Middle English helk, Middle English–1500s hulke, Middle English hollek.

Etymology: Old English hulc hut, probably going back to an earlier *huluc , a diminutive formation from ablaut stem hul- of helan to cover; compare hull n.¹, hole n., holl n.

Obsolete or dialect.

1. A hut, shed, hovel. Obsolete or dialect.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > hut or hovel > [noun]

hulka1000

boothc1200

hull?c1225

lodge1290

hottea1325

holetc1380

tavern1382

scalea1400

schura1400

tugury1412

donjon?a1439

cabinc1440

coshc1490

cabinet1579

bully1598

crib1600

shed1600

hut1637

hovela1640

boorachc1660

barrack1686

bothy1750

corf1770

rancho1819

shanty1820

kraal1832

shelty1834

shackle1835

mia-mia1837

wickiup1838

caboose1839

chantier1849

hangar1852

caban1866

shebang1867

humpy1873

shack1878

hale1885

bach1927

jhuggi1927

favela1961

hokkie1973

a1000 Laws of Ethelred ii. c. 3 §2 Gyf he..hæbbe oððon hulc geworhtne, oððon geteld geslagen.

c1000 Ælfric Homilies I. 336 He wolde genealæcan his hulce.

c1050 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 185/13 Tugurium, hulc.

1391 in J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (1570) 559/1 In a chappel not hallowed, but accurset sheperds hulke.

14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 726/23 Hoc tugurrium, a hollek.

a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Isa. i. 8 As an hulke in a place where gourdis wexen.

a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Wisd. xi. 2 Thei maden litle housis [v.rr. housis, ether hulkis; housis, either helkis] in desert places.

1827 J. Clare Shepherd's Cal. 32 Shepherds, that within their hulks remain.

†2. A hiding place; or ? hiding, concealment.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > a secret place, hiding place > [noun]

hidelsc975

hidela1300

bushc1330

hulkc1330

derna1340

tapissinga1340

coverta1375

hiding1382

loting-placea1398

cover14..

hiding placec1440

mewa1450

closetc1450

hole1483

cure1502

secret1530

shrouding place1571

ivy-bush1576

coney burrowa1586

hidlings1597

foxhole1606

shrouding corner1610

recess1611

subterfuge1616

latibule1623

latebra1626

blind1646

privacy1648

hide1649

retreat1697

rathole1770

hidey-hole1817

tod hole1846

hulster1880

hideout1885

cwtch1890

castle1898

lurk1906

stash1927

hideaway1930

c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 8288 Hengist..had don hem skulke In wodes, in hilles, to crepe in hulke.

3. A hull or husk (of fruit, grain, etc.); an outer covering or shell. Obsolete or dialect.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > seed > seed-vessel or pericarp > [noun] > pod, husk, or siliqua

shalec825

hullc1000

codOE

hud1398

hulk1398

pod1553

shell1561

shuck1674

orme1688

siliqua1704

kida1722

hose-husk1728

silicula1760

silicle1785

silique1785

silicule1793

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) xvii. cxxxv Þe schale [of an acorn] wiþ þe curnel and þe hulke.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 85/1 The Hulk, hull, or pill is..any covering of fruit that is thin skinned or easily cut.

1707 J. Stevens tr. F. de Quevedo Comical Wks. (1709) 223 Blown Bladders, nothing but Hulk and Air.

1896 W. W. Skeat & T. Hallam Pegge's Two Coll. Derbicisms Hulk, a hull, or husk.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

hulkn.²

Brit.

/hʌlk/, U.S.

/həlk/

Forms: Old English hulc, Middle English–1600s hulke, (1500s Scottish houk), 1600s– hulk, (1600s hulck, 1800s dialect helk).

Etymology: Old English hulc, corresponding to medieval Latin hulcus, hulcum, hulca; Middle English hulke, corresponding to Old French hulke, hulque, houlque, hurque, hourque (feminine), a flat-bottomed transport-ship with prow and poop rounded (Godefroy); Middle Dutch hulc, hulke, modern Dutch hulk, Middle Low German hulk, holk, holke, Old High German holcho, Middle High German holche, hülk, modern German holk, hülk, hulk: a word of early diffusion among the maritime peoples of Western Europe, of uncertain origin, conjecturally referred to Greek ὁλκάς a ship that is towed, hence a ship of burthen, a trading vessel, merchantman.

1. A ship. In an Old English glossary = Latin liburna, a light, fast-sailing vessel. But usually, in Middle English and later, A large ship of burden or transport, often associated with the carrack. Now archaic and in vague sense = ‘big, unwieldy vessel’.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel for transporting people or goods > [noun] > types of

hulkc1420

wherry1443

hoy1495

wherry-boat1538

boyart1545

hurk1598

bilander1656

galliot-hoy1665

transport-hoy1705

flat-boat1801

shoy-hoy1840

hack boat1863

blood boat1873

blood boat1889

ro-ro1978

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel with reference to qualities or attributes > [noun] > with reference to behaviour at sea > slow and clumsy > and large

hulk1730

?c1000 Latin Laws of Ethelred, De Inst. Lond. c. 2 (13th c.) in Schmid Gesetze 218 Si adveniat ceol vel hulcus.

c1050 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 181/28 Liburna, hulc.

c1420 J. Lydgate Assembly of Gods 88 No shyp..keruell, boot ner barge, Gret karyk, nor hulke.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 252/2 Hulke, shype, hulcus.

1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. (1482) ccxliv. 302 Grete carikkes, hulkes, galeyes and shippes.

1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid x. v. 123 The mekle houk hym bayr was Tryton callit.

1589 Voy. W. Towrson in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations i. 120 Two Hulkes of Dantzick, the one..a shippe of 400. tunnes.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Hourque, a Hulke, or huge Fly-boat.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Oulque, a Hulke.

a1653 Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers (1855) 22 Eight persons were in Noah's hulk together.

1670 C. Cotton tr. G. Girard Hist. Life Duke of Espernon iii. ix. 441 One might..have call'd these prodigious Hulks (which were each of them of two thousand Tun) floating Cities, rather than Ships.

1730 J. Thomson Autumn in Seasons 132 The sooty hulk Steer'd sluggish on.

1885 J. Runciman Skippers & Shellbacks 91 A vast gloomy hulk hove up on his port bow.

figurative.1637 G. Gillespie Dispute against Eng.-Popish Ceremonies Epist. sig. A4 These are the best wares which the bigge hulke of Conformity..hath imported amongst us.

†2. The hull n.² of a ship. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > [noun]

bulka1450

bodyc1550

hull?a1560

hulk1632

1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena 39 The Galley..her hulke painted over with sparkling vermilion.

1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 110 These Saiques are like great Barks, having a round hulk.

1829 Nat. Philos. (Libr. Useful Knowl.) I. Prelim. Treat. 38 The back of its shell resembles the hulk of a ship.

a. The body of a dismantled ship (worn out and unfit for sea service) retained in use as a store-vessel, for the temporary housing of crews, for quarantine or other purposes; also applied to vessels specially built for such purposes. (See also sheer-hulk n.)

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels with other specific uses > [noun] > (dismantled) ship used for specific purposes

hulk1671

sheer-hulk1769

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels with other specific uses > [noun] > houseboat > type of

hulk1671

Tanka boat1839

shanty-boat1880

quarter boat1929

1671 J. Dryden Evening's Love Pref. The Hulk of Sir Francis Drake.

1681 C. Cotton Wonders of Peake 75 Moor'd up with a Chain, Like Drake's old Hulk at Deptford.

1682 London Gaz. No. 1756/1 The Hulk rides very securely within, and is..employed in Careening one of His Majesties Ships.

1694 London Gaz. No. 3017/3 Yesterday was Launched..a new Hulk named the Chatham Hulk, which exceeds all that has been before built of that kind.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Hulks, are large Vessels, having their Gun Decks from 113 to 150 Foot long, and from 31 to 40 Foot broad... Their chief Use is for setting in Masts into Ships, and the like.

1776 L. McIntosh in J. Sparks Corr. Amer. Revol. (1853) I. 163 We sunk a hulk in the channel of the river.

1817 J. Evans Excursion to Windsor 467 Those vast ponderous Hulks devoted to the purposes of quarantine.

figurative.1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island i. iii. 19 I'm a poor old hulk on a lee shore.

b. A vessel of this kind formerly used as a prison. Usually plural. (See quot. 1864.)

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] > ships used as prisons

prison ship1779

hulk1797

brig1852

1797 Sporting Mag. 9 284 Major Semple..and another convict..were lodged on board the hulks at Portsmouth.

1834 T. Medwin Angler in Wales I. 151 The sentence of death..would be commuted for—the hulks.

1864 R. Chambers Bk. of Days II. 67/2 It was as a means of devising a severe mode of punishment short of death, that the Hulks on the Thames were introduced, in 1776... These prison-ships have sometimes been constructed for this special purpose, and yet the term ‘hulk’ remains in use as a short and easy designation.

1887 Times 26 Aug. 7/5 Prison life..was very unlike what it now is;..the hulks were sinks of iniquity.

attributive.1897 ‘P. Warung’ Tales Old Regime 60 In the moment which succeeded the hulk-warder's words.1897 ‘P. Warung’ Tales Old Regime 60 Achieving..a very bad ‘hulk report’ for himself.

4. transferred and figurative.

a. A big, unwieldy person.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > bodily height > tallness > [noun] > and broadness > person

giant1559

Hercules1567

Gogmagogc1580

cob1582

Gargantuist1593

hulk1600

rhinoceros1602

colossus1605

pompiona1616

lump1630

strapper1675

man-mountain1726

Brobdingnagian1728

grenadier1805

butt-cut1806

gorilla1884

King Kong1933

hunk1941

1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 i. i. 19 Harry Monmouthes brawne, the hulke sir Iohn.

a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 22 The hulck of a tall Brabanter, behinde whom I stood..shadowed me from notice.

1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Helk, a large, heavy person.

1859 G. Meredith Ordeal Richard Feverel III. viii. 231 There is something impressive in a great human hulk.

1894 S. R. Crockett Raiders 58 Think shame o' yersel', ye great hulk.

b. A bulky or unwieldy mass (of anything).

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [noun] > largeness of volume or bulkiness > and clumsiness > that which is

lug1545

monster1759

hulk1818

megatherium1850

potwalloper1896

dinosaur1975

1818 W. Scott Let. 17 Jan. (1933) V. 60 The wind has not stirred a stone of the ugly hulk of stone and lime.

1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Helks, large white clouds, indicative of a thunder-storm.

1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. App. 546 These huge ice hulks are confined to Greenland, Spitzbergen, and Baffin Seas.

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hulkn.³

Etymology: Goes with hulk v.²

local. Mining.

An excavation made in removing the ‘gouge’, etc.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > mining > [noun] > an excavation or cutting

hatch1671

board1708

hatching1753

hulk1847

1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Hulk, an old excavated working. Derb.

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† hulkv.¹

Etymology: ? < hulk n.¹ 2.

Obsolete. rare.

intransitive. To hide, lie concealed.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > hide, lie or hidden [verb (intransitive)]

mitheeOE

wryOE

darea1225

skulka1300

hidec1330

hulkc1330

dilla1400

droopc1420

shroudc1450

darkenc1475

conceal1591

lie1604

dern1608

burrow1614

obscurea1626

to lie (also stand, stay, etc.) perdu1701

lie close1719

c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 15888 Al þat ilke day he sculked, Among þe pouere men he hulked.

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hulkv.²

Brit.

/hʌlk/, U.S.

/həlk/

Etymology: apparently a variant of holk v. to hollow out.

†1. transitive. To disembowel. Obsolete or dialect.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > maiming or mutilation > maim or mutilate [verb (transitive)] > disembowel

bowel1330

disbowelc1440

debowel1487

unpauncha1500

garbage1542

unbowel1552

disentrail1596

untripe1611

disembowel1613

exenterate1613

hulk1622

eviscerate1623

eventerate1656

garble1661

viscerate1727

degut1933

the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of meat > dress animals for food [verb (transitive)] > disembowel or clean

scour1412

void1535

scald1565

paunch1570

hulk1622

viscerate1727

porge1773

clean1841

gralloch1848

1622 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Phylaster (new ed.) v. 70 And with this washing blow..I could hulke your grace, and hang you vp crosse-legd, Like a Hare at a Poulters.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. ix. 188/1 [To] Hulk, or Paunch, is to open the Hare, and take out her Garbage.

1736 Compl. Family-piece ii. i. 224 Take up the Hare, and hulk her.

a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830)

1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words I. 344 Hulk, to take out the entrails of a hare or rabbit.

2. Mining. To remove the ‘gouge’ or softer part of a lode before blasting or breaking down the harder part.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > mining > mine [verb (transitive)] > activities for blasting

stem1791

shoot1830

hulk1881

1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 130 Dzhu, to cut ahead on one side of a face, so as to increase the efficacy of blasting on the remainder..Also called to hulk.

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hulkv.³

Brit.

/hʌlk/, U.S.

/həlk/

Etymology: < hulk n.²

I. Senses relating to ships.

1. transitive.

†a. To condemn to ‘the hulks’ (see hulk n.² 3b).

ΘΚΠ

society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > judging > sentencing > sentence [verb (transitive)] > sentence to the hulks

hulk1827

1827 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 22 453 The poacher was taken, tried, hulked.

b. To lodge (sailors, etc.) temporarily in a hulk.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > administration and ceremonial > organize naval affairs, etc. [verb (transitive)] > lodge temporarily

hulk1836

1836 E. Howard Rattlin xxix They were hulked on board of the Pegasus.

1859 All Year Round 20 Aug. 390/2 The Cherbourg authorities don't ‘hulk’ their seamen as we do in narrow, dirty, old-fashioned hulks.

II. Senses relating to clumsiness or bulk.

2. intransitive. To act, hang about, or go in a clumsy, unwieldy, or lazy manner. dialect.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > be slothful or lazy [verb (intransitive)] > idle or loaf

luskc1330

lubber1530

to play the truant, -s1560

lazea1592

lazy1612

meecha1625

lounge1671

saunter1672

sloungea1682

slive1707

soss1711

lolpoop1722

muzz1758

shack1787

hulkc1793

creolize1802

maroon1808

shackle1809

sidle1828

slinge1834

sossle1837

loaf1838

mike1838

to sit around1844

hawm1847

wanton1847

sozzle1848

mooch1851

slosh1854

bum1857

flane1876

slummock1877

dead-beat1881

to lop about1881

scow1901

scowbank1901

stall1916

doss1937

plotz1941

lig1960

loon1969

the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > do something unskilfully [verb (intransitive)] > act clumsily

hulkc1793

the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > move progressively in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > move heavily or clumsily

lumberc1400

lumper1581

lob1819

hulka1825

c1793 Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1799) I. 76 Before I'd dance attendance upon you..till four or five o'clock in the after~noon, while you lie hulking in bed.

a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) (at cited word) It is said of a lazy lout, who has nothing to do, and desires to have nothing, that he goes hulking about from place to place, seemingly watching for opportunities to pilfer.

3. (With up.) To rise bulkily or massively.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > rise or go up [verb (intransitive)] > rise or go up in other manner

upsmite1446

spire1607

eruct1666

uptoss1828

upshoot1876

hulk1880

upwind1880

fountain1903

bob-up1935

1880 R. D. Blackmore Mary Anerley I. vi. 65 This is the chump of the spine of the Wolds, which hulks up at last into Flamborough Head.

1892 Daily News 17 Sept. 5/4 The working man is getting his body back again into good condition..He is hulking-up, as we say.

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n.¹a1000

n.²?c1000

n.³1847

v.¹c1330

v.²1622

v.³c1793

单词	hulk
释义	† hulkn.¹ Brit. /hʌlk/, U.S. /həlk/ Forms: Old English hulc, Middle English– hulk; also Middle English helk, Middle English–1500s hulke, Middle English hollek. Etymology: Old English hulc hut, probably going back to an earlier huluc , a diminutive formation from ablaut stem hul-* of helan to cover; compare hull n.¹, hole n., holl n. Obsolete or dialect. 1. A hut, shed, hovel. Obsolete or dialect. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > hut or hovel > [noun] hulka1000 boothc1200 hull?c1225 lodge1290 hottea1325 holetc1380 tavern1382 scalea1400 schura1400 tugury1412 donjon?a1439 cabinc1440 coshc1490 cabinet1579 bully1598 crib1600 shed1600 hut1637 hovela1640 boorachc1660 barrack1686 bothy1750 corf1770 rancho1819 shanty1820 kraal1832 shelty1834 shackle1835 mia-mia1837 wickiup1838 caboose1839 chantier1849 hangar1852 caban1866 shebang1867 humpy1873 shack1878 hale1885 bach1927 jhuggi1927 favela1961 hokkie1973 a1000 Laws of Ethelred ii. c. 3 §2 Gyf he..hæbbe oððon hulc geworhtne, oððon geteld geslagen. c1000 Ælfric Homilies I. 336 He wolde genealæcan his hulce. c1050 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 185/13 Tugurium, hulc. 1391 in J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (1570) 559/1 In a chappel not hallowed, but accurset sheperds hulke. 14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 726/23 Hoc tugurrium, a hollek. a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Isa. i. 8 As an hulke in a place where gourdis wexen. a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Wisd. xi. 2 Thei maden litle housis [v.rr. housis, ether hulkis; housis, either helkis] in desert places. 1827 J. Clare Shepherd's Cal. 32 Shepherds, that within their hulks remain. †2. A hiding place; or ? hiding, concealment. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > a secret place, hiding place > [noun] hidelsc975 hidela1300 bushc1330 hulkc1330 derna1340 tapissinga1340 coverta1375 hiding1382 loting-placea1398 cover14.. hiding placec1440 mewa1450 closetc1450 hole1483 cure1502 secret1530 shrouding place1571 ivy-bush1576 coney burrowa1586 hidlings1597 foxhole1606 shrouding corner1610 recess1611 subterfuge1616 latibule1623 latebra1626 blind1646 privacy1648 hide1649 retreat1697 rathole1770 hidey-hole1817 tod hole1846 hulster1880 hideout1885 cwtch1890 castle1898 lurk1906 stash1927 hideaway1930 c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 8288 Hengist..had don hem skulke In wodes, in hilles, to crepe in hulke. 3. A hull or husk (of fruit, grain, etc.); an outer covering or shell. Obsolete or dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > seed > seed-vessel or pericarp > [noun] > pod, husk, or siliqua shalec825 hullc1000 codOE hud1398 hulk1398 pod1553 shell1561 shuck1674 orme1688 siliqua1704 kida1722 hose-husk1728 silicula1760 silicle1785 silique1785 silicule1793 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) xvii. cxxxv Þe schale [of an acorn] wiþ þe curnel and þe hulke. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 85/1 The Hulk, hull, or pill is..any covering of fruit that is thin skinned or easily cut. 1707 J. Stevens tr. F. de Quevedo Comical Wks. (1709) 223 Blown Bladders, nothing but Hulk and Air. 1896 W. W. Skeat & T. Hallam Pegge's Two Coll. Derbicisms Hulk, a hull, or husk. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2022). hulkn.² Brit. /hʌlk/, U.S. /həlk/ Forms: Old English hulc, Middle English–1600s hulke, (1500s Scottish houk), 1600s– hulk, (1600s hulck, 1800s dialect helk). Etymology: Old English hulc, corresponding to medieval Latin hulcus, hulcum, hulca; Middle English hulke, corresponding to Old French hulke, hulque, houlque, hurque, hourque (feminine), a flat-bottomed transport-ship with prow and poop rounded (Godefroy); Middle Dutch hulc, hulke, modern Dutch hulk, Middle Low German hulk, holk, holke, Old High German holcho, Middle High German holche, hülk, modern German holk, hülk, hulk: a word of early diffusion among the maritime peoples of Western Europe, of uncertain origin, conjecturally referred to Greek ὁλκάς a ship that is towed, hence a ship of burthen, a trading vessel, merchantman. 1. A ship. In an Old English glossary = Latin liburna, a light, fast-sailing vessel. But usually, in Middle English and later, A large ship of burden or transport, often associated with the carrack. Now archaic and in vague sense = ‘big, unwieldy vessel’. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel for transporting people or goods > [noun] > types of hulkc1420 wherry1443 hoy1495 wherry-boat1538 boyart1545 hurk1598 bilander1656 galliot-hoy1665 transport-hoy1705 flat-boat1801 shoy-hoy1840 hack boat1863 blood boat1873 blood boat1889 ro-ro1978 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel with reference to qualities or attributes > [noun] > with reference to behaviour at sea > slow and clumsy > and large hulk1730 ?c1000 Latin Laws of Ethelred, De Inst. Lond. c. 2 (13th c.) in Schmid Gesetze 218 Si adveniat ceol vel hulcus. c1050 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 181/28 Liburna, hulc. c1420 J. Lydgate Assembly of Gods 88 No shyp..keruell, boot ner barge, Gret karyk, nor hulke. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 252/2 Hulke, shype, hulcus. 1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. (1482) ccxliv. 302 Grete carikkes, hulkes, galeyes and shippes. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid x. v. 123 The mekle houk hym bayr was Tryton callit. 1589 Voy. W. Towrson in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations i. 120 Two Hulkes of Dantzick, the one..a shippe of 400. tunnes. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Hourque, a Hulke, or huge Fly-boat. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Oulque, a Hulke. a1653 Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers (1855) 22 Eight persons were in Noah's hulk together. 1670 C. Cotton tr. G. Girard Hist. Life Duke of Espernon iii. ix. 441 One might..have call'd these prodigious Hulks (which were each of them of two thousand Tun) floating Cities, rather than Ships. 1730 J. Thomson Autumn in Seasons 132 The sooty hulk Steer'd sluggish on. 1885 J. Runciman Skippers & Shellbacks 91 A vast gloomy hulk hove up on his port bow. figurative.1637 G. Gillespie Dispute against Eng.-Popish Ceremonies Epist. sig. A4 These are the best wares which the bigge hulke of Conformity..hath imported amongst us. †2. The hull n.² of a ship. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > [noun] bulka1450 bodyc1550 hull?a1560 hulk1632 1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena 39 The Galley..her hulke painted over with sparkling vermilion. 1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 110 These Saiques are like great Barks, having a round hulk. 1829 Nat. Philos. (Libr. Useful Knowl.) I. Prelim. Treat. 38 The back of its shell resembles the hulk of a ship. 3. a. The body of a dismantled ship (worn out and unfit for sea service) retained in use as a store-vessel, for the temporary housing of crews, for quarantine or other purposes; also applied to vessels specially built for such purposes. (See also sheer-hulk n.) ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels with other specific uses > [noun] > (dismantled) ship used for specific purposes hulk1671 sheer-hulk1769 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels with other specific uses > [noun] > houseboat > type of hulk1671 Tanka boat1839 shanty-boat1880 quarter boat1929 1671 J. Dryden Evening's Love Pref. The Hulk of Sir Francis Drake. 1681 C. Cotton Wonders of Peake 75 Moor'd up with a Chain, Like Drake's old Hulk at Deptford. 1682 London Gaz. No. 1756/1 The Hulk rides very securely within, and is..employed in Careening one of His Majesties Ships. 1694 London Gaz. No. 3017/3 Yesterday was Launched..a new Hulk named the Chatham Hulk, which exceeds all that has been before built of that kind. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Hulks, are large Vessels, having their Gun Decks from 113 to 150 Foot long, and from 31 to 40 Foot broad... Their chief Use is for setting in Masts into Ships, and the like. 1776 L. McIntosh in J. Sparks Corr. Amer. Revol. (1853) I. 163 We sunk a hulk in the channel of the river. 1817 J. Evans Excursion to Windsor 467 Those vast ponderous Hulks devoted to the purposes of quarantine. figurative.1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island i. iii. 19 I'm a poor old hulk on a lee shore. b. A vessel of this kind formerly used as a prison. Usually plural. (See quot. 1864.) ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] > ships used as prisons prison ship1779 hulk1797 brig1852 1797 Sporting Mag. 9 284 Major Semple..and another convict..were lodged on board the hulks at Portsmouth. 1834 T. Medwin Angler in Wales I. 151 The sentence of death..would be commuted for—the hulks. 1864 R. Chambers Bk. of Days II. 67/2 It was as a means of devising a severe mode of punishment short of death, that the Hulks on the Thames were introduced, in 1776... These prison-ships have sometimes been constructed for this special purpose, and yet the term ‘hulk’ remains in use as a short and easy designation. 1887 Times 26 Aug. 7/5 Prison life..was very unlike what it now is;..the hulks were sinks of iniquity. attributive.1897 ‘P. Warung’ Tales Old Regime 60 In the moment which succeeded the hulk-warder's words.1897 ‘P. Warung’ Tales Old Regime 60 Achieving..a very bad ‘hulk report’ for himself. 4. transferred and figurative. a. A big, unwieldy person. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily height > tallness > [noun] > and broadness > person giant1559 Hercules1567 Gogmagogc1580 cob1582 Gargantuist1593 hulk1600 rhinoceros1602 colossus1605 pompiona1616 lump1630 strapper1675 man-mountain1726 Brobdingnagian1728 grenadier1805 butt-cut1806 gorilla1884 King Kong1933 hunk1941 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 i. i. 19 Harry Monmouthes brawne, the hulke sir Iohn. View more context for this quotation a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 22 The hulck of a tall Brabanter, behinde whom I stood..shadowed me from notice. 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Helk, a large, heavy person. 1859 G. Meredith Ordeal Richard Feverel III. viii. 231 There is something impressive in a great human hulk. 1894 S. R. Crockett Raiders 58 Think shame o' yersel', ye great hulk. b. A bulky or unwieldy mass (of anything). ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [noun] > largeness of volume or bulkiness > and clumsiness > that which is lug1545 monster1759 hulk1818 megatherium1850 potwalloper1896 dinosaur1975 1818 W. Scott Let. 17 Jan. (1933) V. 60 The wind has not stirred a stone of the ugly hulk of stone and lime. 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Helks, large white clouds, indicative of a thunder-storm. 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. App. 546 These huge ice hulks are confined to Greenland, Spitzbergen, and Baffin Seas. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022). hulkn.³ Etymology: Goes with hulk v.² local. Mining. An excavation made in removing the ‘gouge’, etc. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > mining > [noun] > an excavation or cutting hatch1671 board1708 hatching1753 hulk1847 1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Hulk, an old excavated working. Derb. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2018). † hulkv.¹ Etymology: ? < hulk n.¹ 2. Obsolete. rare. intransitive. To hide, lie concealed. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > hide, lie or hidden [verb (intransitive)] mitheeOE wryOE darea1225 skulka1300 hidec1330 hulkc1330 dilla1400 droopc1420 shroudc1450 darkenc1475 conceal1591 lie1604 dern1608 burrow1614 obscurea1626 to lie (also stand, stay, etc.) perdu1701 lie close1719 c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 15888 Al þat ilke day he sculked, Among þe pouere men he hulked. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2021). hulkv.² Brit. /hʌlk/, U.S. /həlk/ Etymology: apparently a variant of holk v. to hollow out. †1. transitive. To disembowel. Obsolete or dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > maiming or mutilation > maim or mutilate [verb (transitive)] > disembowel bowel1330 disbowelc1440 debowel1487 unpauncha1500 garbage1542 unbowel1552 disentrail1596 untripe1611 disembowel1613 exenterate1613 hulk1622 eviscerate1623 eventerate1656 garble1661 viscerate1727 degut1933 the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of meat > dress animals for food [verb (transitive)] > disembowel or clean scour1412 void1535 scald1565 paunch1570 hulk1622 viscerate1727 porge1773 clean1841 gralloch1848 1622 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Phylaster (new ed.) v. 70 And with this washing blow..I could hulke your grace, and hang you vp crosse-legd, Like a Hare at a Poulters. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. ix. 188/1 [To] Hulk, or Paunch, is to open the Hare, and take out her Garbage. 1736 Compl. Family-piece ii. i. 224 Take up the Hare, and hulk her. a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) 1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words I. 344 Hulk, to take out the entrails of a hare or rabbit. 2. Mining. To remove the ‘gouge’ or softer part of a lode before blasting or breaking down the harder part. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > mining > mine [verb (transitive)] > activities for blasting stem1791 shoot1830 hulk1881 1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 130 Dzhu, to cut ahead on one side of a face, so as to increase the efficacy of blasting on the remainder..Also called to hulk. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022). hulkv.³ Brit. /hʌlk/, U.S. /həlk/ Etymology: < hulk n.² I. Senses relating to ships. 1. transitive. †a. To condemn to ‘the hulks’ (see hulk n.² 3b). ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > judging > sentencing > sentence [verb (transitive)] > sentence to the hulks hulk1827 1827 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 22 453 The poacher was taken, tried, hulked. b. To lodge (sailors, etc.) temporarily in a hulk. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > administration and ceremonial > organize naval affairs, etc. [verb (transitive)] > lodge temporarily hulk1836 1836 E. Howard Rattlin xxix They were hulked on board of the Pegasus. 1859 All Year Round 20 Aug. 390/2 The Cherbourg authorities don't ‘hulk’ their seamen as we do in narrow, dirty, old-fashioned hulks. II. Senses relating to clumsiness or bulk. 2. intransitive. To act, hang about, or go in a clumsy, unwieldy, or lazy manner. dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > be slothful or lazy [verb (intransitive)] > idle or loaf luskc1330 lubber1530 to play the truant, -s1560 lazea1592 lazy1612 meecha1625 lounge1671 saunter1672 sloungea1682 slive1707 soss1711 lolpoop1722 muzz1758 shack1787 hulkc1793 creolize1802 maroon1808 shackle1809 sidle1828 slinge1834 sossle1837 loaf1838 mike1838 to sit around1844 hawm1847 wanton1847 sozzle1848 mooch1851 slosh1854 bum1857 flane1876 slummock1877 dead-beat1881 to lop about1881 scow1901 scowbank1901 stall1916 doss1937 plotz1941 lig1960 loon1969 the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > do something unskilfully [verb (intransitive)] > act clumsily hulkc1793 the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > move progressively in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > move heavily or clumsily lumberc1400 lumper1581 lob1819 hulka1825 c1793 Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1799) I. 76 Before I'd dance attendance upon you..till four or five o'clock in the after~noon, while you lie hulking in bed. a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) (at cited word) It is said of a lazy lout, who has nothing to do, and desires to have nothing, that he goes hulking about from place to place, seemingly watching for opportunities to pilfer. 3. (With up.) To rise bulkily or massively. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > rise or go up [verb (intransitive)] > rise or go up in other manner upsmite1446 spire1607 eruct1666 uptoss1828 upshoot1876 hulk1880 upwind1880 fountain1903 bob-up1935 1880 R. D. Blackmore Mary Anerley I. vi. 65 This is the chump of the spine of the Wolds, which hulks up at last into Flamborough Head. 1892 Daily News 17 Sept. 5/4 The working man is getting his body back again into good condition..He is hulking-up, as we say. 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