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Definition of hulk in English: hulknoun hʌlkhəlk 1An old ship stripped of fittings and permanently moored, especially for use as storage or (formerly) as a prison. Example sentencesExamples - Hans felt his head thrown forward, as his ears suffered the groaning of the hull, as the massive hulk of the ship came to one stop.
- But as far as the rotting hulks and derelict barges are concerned - nothing.
- Some ships were dismasted and used as prison or storage hulks.
- Jorgenson's downfall led to his return to England as a prisoner, and his committal to a Thames River prison hulk, Bahama, among fellow Danish officers.
- The horizon is low, the masts and hulks of the ships making a series of horizontals and verticals receding far into the distance.
- He called orders to the men in the rigging that would ease their forward motion and approach to the prison hulk.
- South Australia also had its own prison hulks, moored at Semaphore.
- I first wrote to you in May 1996 concerning the parlous state of the hulks and barges moored illegally along the waterfront by Waterman's Park.
- The rusting hulk of a long-abandoned Soviet ship loomed in the distance.
- For security's sake the hulks were moored some way from shore in deep water - floating Alcatrazes.
- The only reminders of the once thriving fishing activity are the rusting hulks of ships and an ancient fish plant.
- Submerged in the azure waters of the ominously named Shipwreck Bay, the rusting hulk of the oil tanker Jessica is a somber reminder of man's threat to the fragile paradise of the Galapagos Islands.
- The shoreline was cluttered with the rusting hulks of old ships that had been hauled out of the sea and hundreds of people were crawling over the wrecks salvaging anything of value.
- I was kept on a derelict hulk on the Thames, and no-one told me how long it would be before I was moved on.
- Sold in 1953, it was towed into St Omer Bay in Kenepuru Sound in Marlborough and used as a store hulk.
- The final design of the Mulberry Harbours called for a breakwater created by sunken ship hulks and the manufacture of an outer sea wall of huge concrete boxes which were given the codename, Phoenix.
- The petrol-driven Hollands were initially consigned to Fareham Creek along with powder vessels, quarantine hulks and other undesirables.
- Plans were made for the removal from the harbour of two old ship hulks - one at Cartron shore and the other at the old quay at the bottom of Quay Street.
- Some of the ships were old hulks that had been destined for the breakers' yard when pressed into service.
- The site, once a shipyard, is reclaimed land incorporating hulks of ships abandoned by the Forty-niners rushing inland for gold.
- Faden's father, convicted of burglary, had died in the prison hulks off Portsmouth, and Marella herself was found guilty of stealing a dead sheep (though she only got a week for that).
Synonyms wreck, shipwreck, ruin, shell, skeleton, hull, frame, framework, derelict - 1.1 A large disused structure.
hulks of abandoned machinery Example sentencesExamples - Old department stores are empty hulks; the shoppers prefer the malls out of town.
- Tom and Tim have carted away the junk (rusting hulks of machinery) that the airport owner collected on site, so that the place is looking positively respectable.
- Many of those once-shiny factories are rusting hulks.
- All along the roads, cars beached for the onset of dark, their huddled hulks miniature bastions guarding the moats of lawns.
- There was hope that its great silhouette would be able to breathe again when the neighbouring hulk of Heron House was deemed unsafe.
- Mr Brown keeps the crippled hulk of his truck in a shed at his home, a several hundred-acre estate in Beech Island, South Carolina.
- Burned-out hulks of several trailer houses were nearby.
- Cowan said the burned-out hulk of the building, once a military base and still a national heritage site owned by the national Department of Public Works, could not be torn down.
- There is the hospital that had been the newly built pride of its community, reduced to a burned-out hulk, every window blown out.
- Darting from in between the rusted hulks of shelled out transports they encroached further into the enemy's territory.
- Looming over the entire museum complex is the massive, windowless hulk of the Back Shop, destined to be the fourth, final, and most spectacular exhibition area.
- Instead of burnt crack houses, rusted hulks of old Fords, and rotting crack babies in garbage cans, it was a beautiful picturesque city with looming skyscrapers and lush parks.
- A network of local yards would have one central location where remaining crushed hulks of vehicles would go once all the re-usable parts have been removed.
- In real life, though, at least 10 of the photo's buildings are abandoned hulks.
- Kirstie peered towards the west at the dark hulks of abandoned buildings in the distance.
- One survivor said it was literally like an earthquake and it left that building just a burned-out hulk.
- Alongside it sit the abandoned hulks of an oil-seed mill and textile factory.
- Beta steered us off the main roads down some quite narrow roads, framed on either side by the windowless hulk of tall buildings, but it was not long until we felt lost and longed to return to the relative comfort of a more populated street.
- Now the same streets were all but deserted - apart from the many abandoned hulks of upturned, burnt-out cars.
- The hulks of machinery littering the site created lots of nooks and crevasses for Bailey to sniff around.
Synonyms wreck, debris, detritus, remainder
2A large or unwieldy boat or other object. great towering hulks of oak, ash, and chestnut Example sentencesExamples - The grey hulk of the jail stares out across Dublin's north inner city.
- The US will bring two hulks (out-of-commission ships) to be sunk 300 nm off the coast of Queensland during the live firing exercise.
- On the edges of the battlefield, damaged hulks of defeated ships listed slowly off to ignite in flashes of multicolored flame, or implode in showers of sparks.
- The path wound its way through the mountains haphazardly, towering hulks of stone suspended high above them.
- With the cost topping $5 million, it was decided to sink the hulk 2.5 nautical miles east of Mudjimba Island, off Mooloolaba.
- Meanwhile in Cardiff, having rejected Hadid, they have built a graceless hulk called the Millennium Stadium right in the city centre, with lottery money.
- Though the vast hulk of the ship daunted her and dampened her spirits immensely, the warm touch of Lucien's steadying hand encouraged and thrilled her.
- Among the craft that littered the harbour was the hulk of the battleship Haruna lying quietly in the shallows, its deck just above the water.
- Towering over the town was Turtle Mountain, a massive hulk of limestone and shale layered with veins of coal in its core.
- Its fraying carpets, Formica decor and inappropriate flooring for computer networks are all part of the look and feel of a glass hulk of a building constructed in 1963.
- The original Victorian cast iron structure has been stripped back and exposed, its riveted, pitted hulk like a decaying ship's hull.
- They grab Frank, throw him in the car, and cart him off to a rotting medieval hulk of a prison.
- The blackened hulks of the great ships and the flattened hangars testified to the fact that the American awakening to what was happening in the rest of the world was sudden and painful.
- They put us all up in the Hilton Metropole, which despite its impressive name and even more impressive size, is still a concrete hulk stuck between a building site and the main road.
- Within the brick hulk, where floors can support a live load of 3 tonnes per square metre, up to 700 parking spaces and a services level can be tucked out of sight.
- Rushwind looks at the battered hulk of his ship.
- These hulks can also provide support fire for brief periods of time.
- 2.1 A large, clumsy-looking person.
Example sentencesExamples - I heard footsteps on the sidewalk and saw a hulk of a man approaching from the office, who I first assumed was a guest.
- A rather large hulk of a man, he looked at his old friend with amusement.
- He was a vast hulk of a man, who hummed a tuneless melody to himself as he lumbered down the corridors.
- Finally, it was over his head, but the battle was not yet over as it was still under the hulk of a man.
- A burly blond hulk of a man spoke from the far end of the table.
- My mother, frail in comparison to the hulk of a man she'd married, was sitting on the couch, too, but looked like she was trying to stay as far from him as possible.
- And now the muscular hulk of the raging brother roars through the doorway, like a terrible predator seeking prey.
- Another unsung hero has been a towering hulk who has made life miserable for opponents trying to stand in front of the San Jose net.
- He is a towering hulk of a homeless man who spends his days patrolling the stretch from the air vent at the back of the St James Centre (where, legend has it, he sleeps) down to the corner-shop opposite my flat.
- To get straight to the point without having to get past the two hulks at the door, he dived through the window, shattering it into a million pieces.
- One of these thugs, a balding hulk of a man, performs a neat trick with an espresso coffee.
- A towering hulk of a man is vigorously hacking away at a formless lump of meat.
- Running backs come and go, used-up hulks dumped for the latest phenoms.
- Why is it Hollywood feels we need to see wet, naked hulks conversing in the bathroom?
- After a moment, he let out a high, piercing whistle that somehow seemed strange coming from the hulk of a man.
- Passing the hulk of a man - even now Charlie couldn't quite see his face, it was too high up and obscured in the dim lights - the boy went up the stairs and back into the main area of the rest stop building.
- A hulk of a man with long sideburns and a warm laugh, he had been a reporter with China Youth Daily for 10 years when, in 1996, he heard the story of the acid attack against the man.
- He is one of life's cruel jokes: a lumbering hulk of a man, ugly within and without.
- A brooding hulk of a man stepped through the entrance.
Synonyms oaf informal clodhopper, ape, gorilla North American informal lummox, klutz North American & Scottish informal galoot archaic lubber, clodpole
Origin Old English hulc 'fast ship', probably reinforced in Middle English by Middle Low German and Middle Dutch hulk; probably of Mediterranean origin and related to Greek holkas 'cargo ship'. A hulk was originally a large cargo or transport ship. The word is probably of Mediterranean origin and related to Greek holkas ‘cargo ship’. In the late 17th century it came to apply to an old ship stripped of fittings and permanently moored, especially one used for storage or as a prison. Large, clumsy people began to be described as hulks in the late Middle Ages.
Definition of hulk in US English: hulknounhəlkhəlk 1An old ship stripped of fittings and permanently moored, especially for use as storage or (formerly) as a prison. Example sentencesExamples - I first wrote to you in May 1996 concerning the parlous state of the hulks and barges moored illegally along the waterfront by Waterman's Park.
- The final design of the Mulberry Harbours called for a breakwater created by sunken ship hulks and the manufacture of an outer sea wall of huge concrete boxes which were given the codename, Phoenix.
- Jorgenson's downfall led to his return to England as a prisoner, and his committal to a Thames River prison hulk, Bahama, among fellow Danish officers.
- But as far as the rotting hulks and derelict barges are concerned - nothing.
- Sold in 1953, it was towed into St Omer Bay in Kenepuru Sound in Marlborough and used as a store hulk.
- Hans felt his head thrown forward, as his ears suffered the groaning of the hull, as the massive hulk of the ship came to one stop.
- The rusting hulk of a long-abandoned Soviet ship loomed in the distance.
- The petrol-driven Hollands were initially consigned to Fareham Creek along with powder vessels, quarantine hulks and other undesirables.
- For security's sake the hulks were moored some way from shore in deep water - floating Alcatrazes.
- South Australia also had its own prison hulks, moored at Semaphore.
- The only reminders of the once thriving fishing activity are the rusting hulks of ships and an ancient fish plant.
- Submerged in the azure waters of the ominously named Shipwreck Bay, the rusting hulk of the oil tanker Jessica is a somber reminder of man's threat to the fragile paradise of the Galapagos Islands.
- Some ships were dismasted and used as prison or storage hulks.
- Faden's father, convicted of burglary, had died in the prison hulks off Portsmouth, and Marella herself was found guilty of stealing a dead sheep (though she only got a week for that).
- Some of the ships were old hulks that had been destined for the breakers' yard when pressed into service.
- The shoreline was cluttered with the rusting hulks of old ships that had been hauled out of the sea and hundreds of people were crawling over the wrecks salvaging anything of value.
- The horizon is low, the masts and hulks of the ships making a series of horizontals and verticals receding far into the distance.
- The site, once a shipyard, is reclaimed land incorporating hulks of ships abandoned by the Forty-niners rushing inland for gold.
- Plans were made for the removal from the harbour of two old ship hulks - one at Cartron shore and the other at the old quay at the bottom of Quay Street.
- He called orders to the men in the rigging that would ease their forward motion and approach to the prison hulk.
- I was kept on a derelict hulk on the Thames, and no-one told me how long it would be before I was moved on.
Synonyms wreck, shipwreck, ruin, shell, skeleton, hull, frame, framework, derelict - 1.1 Any large disused structure.
hulks of abandoned machinery Example sentencesExamples - There was hope that its great silhouette would be able to breathe again when the neighbouring hulk of Heron House was deemed unsafe.
- Alongside it sit the abandoned hulks of an oil-seed mill and textile factory.
- Now the same streets were all but deserted - apart from the many abandoned hulks of upturned, burnt-out cars.
- Burned-out hulks of several trailer houses were nearby.
- Beta steered us off the main roads down some quite narrow roads, framed on either side by the windowless hulk of tall buildings, but it was not long until we felt lost and longed to return to the relative comfort of a more populated street.
- Instead of burnt crack houses, rusted hulks of old Fords, and rotting crack babies in garbage cans, it was a beautiful picturesque city with looming skyscrapers and lush parks.
- The hulks of machinery littering the site created lots of nooks and crevasses for Bailey to sniff around.
- In real life, though, at least 10 of the photo's buildings are abandoned hulks.
- One survivor said it was literally like an earthquake and it left that building just a burned-out hulk.
- A network of local yards would have one central location where remaining crushed hulks of vehicles would go once all the re-usable parts have been removed.
- Darting from in between the rusted hulks of shelled out transports they encroached further into the enemy's territory.
- Old department stores are empty hulks; the shoppers prefer the malls out of town.
- Looming over the entire museum complex is the massive, windowless hulk of the Back Shop, destined to be the fourth, final, and most spectacular exhibition area.
- Kirstie peered towards the west at the dark hulks of abandoned buildings in the distance.
- Mr Brown keeps the crippled hulk of his truck in a shed at his home, a several hundred-acre estate in Beech Island, South Carolina.
- Tom and Tim have carted away the junk (rusting hulks of machinery) that the airport owner collected on site, so that the place is looking positively respectable.
- Many of those once-shiny factories are rusting hulks.
- All along the roads, cars beached for the onset of dark, their huddled hulks miniature bastions guarding the moats of lawns.
- Cowan said the burned-out hulk of the building, once a military base and still a national heritage site owned by the national Department of Public Works, could not be torn down.
- There is the hospital that had been the newly built pride of its community, reduced to a burned-out hulk, every window blown out.
Synonyms wreck, debris, detritus, remainder
2A large or unwieldy boat or other object. Example sentencesExamples - They grab Frank, throw him in the car, and cart him off to a rotting medieval hulk of a prison.
- Towering over the town was Turtle Mountain, a massive hulk of limestone and shale layered with veins of coal in its core.
- They put us all up in the Hilton Metropole, which despite its impressive name and even more impressive size, is still a concrete hulk stuck between a building site and the main road.
- These hulks can also provide support fire for brief periods of time.
- The US will bring two hulks (out-of-commission ships) to be sunk 300 nm off the coast of Queensland during the live firing exercise.
- The blackened hulks of the great ships and the flattened hangars testified to the fact that the American awakening to what was happening in the rest of the world was sudden and painful.
- On the edges of the battlefield, damaged hulks of defeated ships listed slowly off to ignite in flashes of multicolored flame, or implode in showers of sparks.
- Its fraying carpets, Formica decor and inappropriate flooring for computer networks are all part of the look and feel of a glass hulk of a building constructed in 1963.
- The grey hulk of the jail stares out across Dublin's north inner city.
- The original Victorian cast iron structure has been stripped back and exposed, its riveted, pitted hulk like a decaying ship's hull.
- Rushwind looks at the battered hulk of his ship.
- Though the vast hulk of the ship daunted her and dampened her spirits immensely, the warm touch of Lucien's steadying hand encouraged and thrilled her.
- Meanwhile in Cardiff, having rejected Hadid, they have built a graceless hulk called the Millennium Stadium right in the city centre, with lottery money.
- Within the brick hulk, where floors can support a live load of 3 tonnes per square metre, up to 700 parking spaces and a services level can be tucked out of sight.
- With the cost topping $5 million, it was decided to sink the hulk 2.5 nautical miles east of Mudjimba Island, off Mooloolaba.
- Among the craft that littered the harbour was the hulk of the battleship Haruna lying quietly in the shallows, its deck just above the water.
- The path wound its way through the mountains haphazardly, towering hulks of stone suspended high above them.
- 2.1 A large, clumsy-looking person.
Example sentencesExamples - He is one of life's cruel jokes: a lumbering hulk of a man, ugly within and without.
- Finally, it was over his head, but the battle was not yet over as it was still under the hulk of a man.
- My mother, frail in comparison to the hulk of a man she'd married, was sitting on the couch, too, but looked like she was trying to stay as far from him as possible.
- After a moment, he let out a high, piercing whistle that somehow seemed strange coming from the hulk of a man.
- A brooding hulk of a man stepped through the entrance.
- Passing the hulk of a man - even now Charlie couldn't quite see his face, it was too high up and obscured in the dim lights - the boy went up the stairs and back into the main area of the rest stop building.
- He was a vast hulk of a man, who hummed a tuneless melody to himself as he lumbered down the corridors.
- One of these thugs, a balding hulk of a man, performs a neat trick with an espresso coffee.
- Another unsung hero has been a towering hulk who has made life miserable for opponents trying to stand in front of the San Jose net.
- I heard footsteps on the sidewalk and saw a hulk of a man approaching from the office, who I first assumed was a guest.
- A hulk of a man with long sideburns and a warm laugh, he had been a reporter with China Youth Daily for 10 years when, in 1996, he heard the story of the acid attack against the man.
- He is a towering hulk of a homeless man who spends his days patrolling the stretch from the air vent at the back of the St James Centre (where, legend has it, he sleeps) down to the corner-shop opposite my flat.
- A burly blond hulk of a man spoke from the far end of the table.
- To get straight to the point without having to get past the two hulks at the door, he dived through the window, shattering it into a million pieces.
- And now the muscular hulk of the raging brother roars through the doorway, like a terrible predator seeking prey.
- Running backs come and go, used-up hulks dumped for the latest phenoms.
- A rather large hulk of a man, he looked at his old friend with amusement.
- A towering hulk of a man is vigorously hacking away at a formless lump of meat.
- Why is it Hollywood feels we need to see wet, naked hulks conversing in the bathroom?
Origin Old English hulc ‘fast ship’, probably reinforced in Middle English by Middle Low German and Middle Dutch hulk; probably of Mediterranean origin and related to Greek holkas ‘cargo ship’. |