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Word entry · 4 letters

hull

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"Ship's body"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /hʌl/Part of speech verb, nounSorted hlluStarts with HEnds with L1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. remove the hulls from

Word origin

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”).

Used in a sentence

  • She sat on the back porch hulling peanuts.
  • Deep in their hulls our deadly bullets light, / And through the yielding planks a passage find.
  • The orthogonal convex hull of an orthogonal polygon is the smallest orthogonally convex polygon that encloses the original polygon.

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