hulk

noun5

1. •
   A non-functional but floating ship, usually stripped of equipment and rigging, and often put to other uses such as accommodation or storage.

   • They could see the lighthouse shining on Quarantine Island, and the green lights on the old coal hulks. — 1918
2. •
   (figurative) A big (and possibly clumsy) person.
3. •
   (figurative) An excessively muscled person.
4. •
   (figurative) A large structure with a dominating presence.

   • The sturdy trunk of Central Park Tower is rising nearby – a great glass hulk that will soon steal the crown for the most vertiginous residences on the planet. — 2019
5. •
   (no longer used) A large ship used for transportation; (more generally) a large ship that is difficult to manoeuvre.

   • Light boates saile swift, though greater hulkes draw deepe. — 1602

verb6

1. •
   To move (a large, hulking body).

   • This hearty, willing man had hulked his 354 pounds about the world, faithfully and deftly running presidential errands in Cuba, Panama, the Philippines, Rome, Russia, and Japan and China. — 1968
2. •
   Of a (large) person: to act or move slowly and clumsily.

   • After a while he hulked up to where Erland sat, putting his hairy fist on the table and watching the boy work. — 1934
3. •
   To be a hulk, that is, a large, hulking, and often imposing presence.

   • As the occupants stepped out, he hulked at them menacingly and asked them the traditional question. 'Can Ah help youse?' — 2006
4. •
   To reduce (a ship) to a non-functional hulk.

   • No further additions were made to this group, and by 1729 the Rank was extinct (the last to be struck was the Ludlow, which had been hulked in 1719). — 2017
5. •
   To temporarily house (goods, people, etc.) in such a hulk.
6. •
   (dialect) To remove the entrails of; to disembowel.

   • And with this swashing blow, do you swear Prince; / I could hulk your Grace, and hang you up cross-legg'd, / Like a Hare at a Poulters, and do this with this wiper. — 1608

noun2

1. •
   A person resembling, especially physically, the Hulk from the Marvel Comics universe.
2. •
   A strongman.