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hulls

/hʌlz/ · noun

Meaning

  1. The outer covering of a fruit or seed.
  2. Any covering.
  3. To remove the outer covering of a fruit or seed.
  4. The body or frame of a vessel, such as a ship or plane.
  5. (of a set A) The smallest set that possesses a particular property (such as convexity) and contains every point of A; slightly more formally, the intersection of all sets which possess the specified property and of which A is a subset.
  6. To drift; to be carried by the impetus of wind or water on the ship's hull alone, with sails furled.
  7. To hit (a ship) in the hull with cannon fire etc.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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