Hull
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.
