huller

WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025

hull¹ /hʌl/   n. [countable]

1. Botany the outer covering of a seed or fruit.

v. [~ + object]

2. to remove the hull of;
   skin, peel, shell, or shuck.

hull² /hʌl/   n. [countable]

1. Nautical, Naval Terms the hollow lowermost portion of a ship.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025

hull¹  (hul), n. 

1. Botany the husk, shell, or outer covering of a seed or fruit.
2. Botany the calyx of certain fruits, as the strawberry.
3. any covering or envelope.

v.t. 

4. to remove the hull of.
5. Dialect Terms [Midland U.S.] to shell (peas or beans).

• bef. 1000; Middle English; Old English hulu husk, pod; akin to Old English helan to cover, hide, Latin cēlāre to hide, conceal, Greek kalýptein to cover up (see apocalypse). See hall, hell, hole

hull′er, n. 
Synonyms

• 1. skin, pod, peel, rind, shuck.

hull²  (hul), n. 

1. Nautical, Naval Terms the hollow, lowermost portion of a ship, floating partially submerged and supporting the remainder of the ship.
2. Aeronautics
   • the boatlike fuselage of a flying boat on which the plane lands or takes off.
   • the cigar-shaped arrangement of girders enclosing the gasbag of a rigid dirigible.
3. Nautical, Idioms, Naval Terms hull down, (of a ship) sufficiently far away, or below the horizon, that the hull is invisible.
4. Nautical, Naval Terms, Idioms hull up, (of a ship) sufficiently near, or above the horizon, that the hull is visible.

v.t. 

5. Nautical, Naval Terms to pierce (the hull of a ship), esp. below the water line.

v.i. 

6. Nautical, Naval Terms to drift without power or sails.

• 1350–1400; Middle English; special use of hull¹

hull′-less, adj. 

Hull  (hul), n. 

Cor•dell  (kôr′del, kôr del′), 1871–1955, U.S. statesman: Secretary of State 1933–44;
Nobel peace prize 1945.
1. Biographical Robert Marvin (Bobby), born 1939, Canadian ice-hockey player.
2. Biographical William, 1753–1825, U.S. general.
3. Place Names Official name, Kingston-upon-Hull. a seaport in Humberside, in E England, on the Humber River. 279,700.
4. Place Names a city in SE Canada, on the Ottawa River opposite Ottawa. 61,039.