Hull

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1. Verb

The outer covering of anything, particularly of a nut or of grain; the outer skin of a kernel; the husk.

2. Verb

The frame or body of a vessel, exclusive of her masts, yards, sails, and rigging.

3. Verb

To strip off or separate the hull or hulls of; to free from integument; as, to hull corn.

4. Verb

To pierce the hull of, as a ship, with a cannon ball.

5. Verb

To toss or drive on the water, like the hull of a ship without sails.

6. Noun

persistent enlarged calyx at base of e.g. a strawberry or raspberry
Vocabulary classified under Biology

7. Noun

the frame or body of ship
Vocabulary classified under Literature and rhetoric

8. Noun

dry outer covering of a fruit or seed or nut
Vocabulary classified under Nature and environment
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