hull
The outer covering of a fruit or seed.
Noun 4 meanings
The outer covering of a fruit or seed.
Any covering.
The body or frame of a vessel, such as a ship or plane.
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.
“The orthogonal convex hull of an orthogonal polygon is the smallest orthogonally convex polygon that encloses the original polygon.”
Verb 2 meanings
To remove the outer covering of a fruit or seed.
“She sat on the back porch hulling peanuts.”
To hit (a ship) in the hull with cannon fire etc.
Etymology
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”).
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HULL at a glance
HULL has 4 letters and scores 7 points in Scrabble (H 4 + U 1 + L 1 + L 1) and 9 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #6,378 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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