Difference between revisions of "Hull"
| (One intermediate revision by the same user not shown) | |||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_128184" /> == | == Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_128184" /> == | ||
<p> (1): (v. t.) The frame or body of a vessel, exclusive of her masts, yards, sails, and rigging. </p> <p> (2): (v. t.) The outer covering of anything, particularly of a nut or of grain; the outer skin of a kernel; the husk. </p> <p> (3): (v. t.) To pierce the hull of, as a ship, with a cannon ball. </p> <p> (4): (v. t.) To strip off or separate the hull or hulls of; to free from integument; as, to hull corn. </p> <p> (5): (v. i.) To toss or drive on the water, like the hull of a ship without sails. </p> | <p> '''(1):''' ''' (''' v. t.) The frame or body of a vessel, exclusive of her masts, yards, sails, and rigging. </p> <p> '''(2):''' ''' (''' v. t.) The outer covering of anything, particularly of a nut or of grain; the outer skin of a kernel; the husk. </p> <p> '''(3):''' ''' (''' v. t.) To pierce the hull of, as a ship, with a cannon ball. </p> <p> '''(4):''' ''' (''' v. t.) To strip off or separate the hull or hulls of; to free from integument; as, to hull corn. </p> <p> '''(5):''' ''' (''' v. i.) To toss or drive on the water, like the hull of a ship without sails. </p> | ||
== The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_74778" /> == | == The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_74778" /> == | ||
Latest revision as of 18:31, 15 October 2021
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( v. t.) The frame or body of a vessel, exclusive of her masts, yards, sails, and rigging.
(2): ( v. t.) The outer covering of anything, particularly of a nut or of grain; the outer skin of a kernel; the husk.
(3): ( v. t.) To pierce the hull of, as a ship, with a cannon ball.
(4): ( v. t.) To strip off or separate the hull or hulls of; to free from integument; as, to hull corn.
(5): ( v. i.) To toss or drive on the water, like the hull of a ship without sails.
The Nuttall Encyclopedia [2]
Or
flourishing river-port in the E. Riding of Yorkshire, at the junction of the Hull with the Humber, 42 m. SE. of York; is an old town, and has many interesting churches, statues, and public buildings; is the third port of the kingdom; has immense docks, is the principal outlet for the woollen and cotton goods of the Midlands, and does a great trade with the Baltic and Germany; has flourishing shipbuilding yards, rope and canvas factories, sugar refineries, oil-mills, etc., and is an important centre of the east coast fisheries.
