How to pronounce“hulk”in English
verbAnd she's she's this tiny little thing. And she's got to spar with like these
hulking like 15, 16, 18-year-old boys. She's got to actually spar with them.
And so, you know, she's and this is across several days. She's got to do this really And so, I'm sitting there, her you know, I'm her dad and me we're
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Definitions of “hulk”
A large ship used for transportation; (more generally) a large ship that is difficult to manoeuvre.
“Light boates ſaile ſwift, though greater hulkes draw deepe.”
A non-functional but floating ship, usually stripped of equipment and rigging, and often put to other uses such as accommodation or storage.
“They could see the lighthouse shining on Quarantine Island, and the green lights on the old coal hulks.”
To reduce (a ship) to a non-functional hulk.
“In Fremantle very few vessels appear to have been reduced to hulks, and only one figure head Samuel Plimsoll, [Fig. 62] survives from a sailing ship hulked in 1904. [...] The Sarah Burnyeat was hulked in Albany in 1886, [...]”
To temporarily house (goods, people, etc.) in such a hulk.
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