hull

Meaning

Noun

1. The outer covering of a fruit or seed.
2. Any covering.

Verb

To remove the outer covering of a fruit or seed.

Verb

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To drift; to be carried by the impetus of wind or water on the ship's hull alone, with sails furled.
2. (transitive) To hit (a ship) in the hull with cannon fire etc.

Synonyms

shell

🐚

husk

peel

skin

fuselage

pod

rind

frame

carapace

shuck

pound

💷

casing

bark

pare

chaff

crust

body

trunk

decorticate

investment

cortex

outer covering

covering

hulk

skim

skeleton

framework

testa

envelope

✉️

encrustation

eggshell

bema

craft

case

legume

leach

jacket

base

attitude

corpus

incrustation

husks

cornhusk

contention

integument

heel

head

clinch

bod

get

Translations

coque

🐚

casco

scafo

décortiquer

scheepsromp

Schale

Rumpf

romp

cáscara

casco

Hülse

écosser

🐚

casco

💀

schil

cosse

Pronounced as (IPA)

/hʌl/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: hul

Inherited from Old English: hulu

Cognate with Dutch: hul

Cognate with German: Hülle

Cognate with Old Irish: calad

Cognate with Latin: callus

Cognate with Church Slavic: калити

Cognate with French: coque

Cognate with Ancient Greek: φάσηλος

Inherited from Middle English: holle

Inherited from Middle English: hole

Cognate with Middle Dutch: -

Cognate with Dutch: hol

In summary

From Middle English hul, hulle, holle (“seed covering, hull of a ship”), from Old English hulu (“seed covering”), from Proto-Germanic *hul-, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover, hide”); or possibly from Proto-Indo-European *kal- (“hard”).
Compare Dutch hul (“hood”), German Hülle (“cover, wrap”), Hülse (“hull”); also Old Irish calad, calath (“hard”), Latin callus, callum (“rough skin”), Old Church Slavonic калити (kaliti, “to cool, harden”). For the sense development, compare French coque (“nutshell; ship's hull”), Ancient Greek φάσηλος (phásēlos, “bean pod; yacht”).

Sentences

Her hull was badly damaged , but she survived and was repaired .