Hull

Noun

 * 1) The outer covering of a fruit or seed

Synonyms

 * (outer covering of fruit or seed): husk, shell

Derived terms

 * ahull
 * monohull
 * multihull
 * twinhull
 * tank hull
 * hull-down

Verb

 * 1) To remove the outer covering of a fruit or seed.
 * She sat on the back porch hulling peanuts.

Synonyms

 * (to remove hull of a fruit or seed): peel, husk, shell, shuck

Noun

 * 1) The body or frame of a vessel such as a ship or plane

Verb

 * 1)  to drift; to be carried by the impetus of wind or water on the ship's hull alone, with sails furled
 * 2) * 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, II.1:
 * We goe not, but we are carried: as things that flote, now gliding gently, now hulling violently, according as the water is, either stormy or calme.
 * 1)  to hit (a ship) in the hull with cannon fire etc

Adjectives for Hull
polished; rough; swift; graceful.

Verbs for Hull
confine to—; discard—; divest of—; enrobe in—; equip with—; fashion—; shed—; shell —; swathe in—; wrap in—; —armors; — covers; —encases; —encompasses; —encrusts; —envelops; —hides; —protects; — reverberates.

Thesaurus
argosy, bark, boat, body, boll, bottom, bran, bucket, burr, capsule, case, chaff, cod, corn shuck, cornhusk, craft, follicle, frame, framework, hooker, hulk, husk, jacket, keel, legume, legumen, leviathan, packet, palea, pease cod, peel, pericarp, pod, rind, seed pod, seed vessel, seedbox, seedcase, shell, ship, shuck, silique, skeleton, skin, slough, structure, tub, vessel, watercraft

Etymology 1
hul:, from hulu:, from  (compare German Hülle:, Hülse:), perhaps from  (compare Old Irish calad:, calath:, Latin callus:, callum:, Old Church Slavonic калити:, Albanian akull:). For the sense development, compare French coque:, Ancient Greek φάσηλος:.

Etymology 2
Origin uncertain; perhaps the same word as Etymology 1, above.

Noun

 * Dutch:
 * Greek: ,
 * Navajo:
 * Portuguese:


 * Russian: шелуха (šeluχá), скорлупа (skorlupá)
 * Scottish Gaelic: cochall
 * Spanish: hollejo, vaina

Verb

 * Dutch:
 * Greek:, αποφλοιώνω


 * Portuguese:

Noun

 * Catalan:
 * Croatian: trup
 * Dutch:, scheepsromp
 * Finnish:
 * Greek:
 * Navajo:


 * Norwegian: skrog
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: slige, plaosg , cochall
 * Spanish:

Adjective

 * 1) crazy, mad

Alternative forms

 * hullik

Verb

 * 1) to fall
 * Hull a hó. - It's snowing. (Literally: the snow is falling)
 * térdre hull - fall on one's knees
 * 1)  to flow
 * 2)  to fall out
 * 3) to die
 * hullanak, mint a legyek - they are dying off like flies

Conjugation
or

Derived terms

 * hulla
 * hulladék

Noun

 * 1) hole