hulk

hulk
    n 1: a very large person; impressive in size or qualities [syn:
         {giant}, {hulk}, {heavyweight}, {whale}]
    2: a ship that has been wrecked and abandoned
    v 1: appear very large or occupy a commanding position; "The
         huge sculpture predominates over the fountain"; "Large
         shadows loomed on the canyon wall" [syn: {loom}, {tower},
         {predominate}, {hulk}]
    

Hulk \Hulk\, v. t. [Cf. MLG. holken to hollow out, Sw.
   h[*a]lka.]
   To take out the entrails of; to disembowel; as, to hulk a
   hare. [R.] --Beau. & Fl. Hulking
    

Hulk \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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52 Moby Thesaurus words for "hulk":
      anatomy, argosy, bark, boat, body, bones, bottom, bucket, carcass,
      clay, clod, corpus, craft, derelict, figure, flesh, form, frame,
      galoot, hooker, hull, jumbo, keel, klutz, leviathan, lout,
      material body, mere wreck, nervous wreck, oaf, ox, packet, person,
      physical body, physique, rattletrap, ruin, ruins, shell, ship,
      shipwreck, skeleton, soma, thumper, torso, trunk, tub, vessel,
      watercraft, whale, whopper, wreck