hull /hʌl/noun 4verb 3forms 3 noun4 •The body or frame of a vessel, such as a ship or plane.Deep in their hulls our deadly bullets light, / And through the yielding planks a passage find. — 1667 •The outer covering of a fruit or seed. •Any covering. •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. verb3 •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.During this action, we had not a man killed or wounded, although the enemy often hulled us, and once, in particular, a shot coming into one of our ports, dismounted one of our guns between decks […] — 1774 •(no longer used) To drift; to be carried by the impetus of wind or water on the ship's hull alone, with sails furled.We goe not, but we are carried: as things that flote, now gliding gently, now hulling violently, according as the water is, either stormy or calme. — 1603 formshulled · hulling · hulls
