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Hulk (?), n. [OE. hulke a heavy ship, AS. hulc a light, swift ship; akin to D. hulk a ship of burden, G. holk, OHG. holcho; perh. fr. LL. holcas, Gr. , prop., a ship which is towed, fr.  to draw, drag, tow.  Cf. Wolf, Holcad.]
    1. The body of a ship or decked vessel of any kind; esp., the body of an old vessel laid by as unfit for service. “Some well-timbered hulk.”  Spenser.

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    2. A heavy ship of clumsy build.  Skeat.

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    3. Anything bulky or unwieldly.  Shak.

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    Shear hulk, an old ship fitted with an apparatus to fix or take out the masts of a ship. -- The hulks, old or dismasted ships, formerly used as prisons. [Eng.] Dickens.

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Hulk (?), v. t. [Cf. MLG. holken to hollow out, Sw. hålka.] To take out the entrails of; to disembowel; as, “to hulk a hare”. [R.]  Beau. & Fl.

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