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Hulking

/ˈhʌlkɪŋ/

To reduce (a ship) to a (nonfunctional) hulk.

📖 Definitions of "Hulking"

verb
  1. 1

    To reduce (a ship) to a (nonfunctional) hulk.

  2. 2

    To be a hulk, a large (hulking) and often imposing presence.

  3. 3

    To move (one's large, hulking body).

verb
  1. 1

    To remove the entrails of; to disembowel.

    "to hulk a hare"

noun
  1. 1

    A kind of sloping embankment used as a coastal defence.

adjective
  1. 1

    Large and bulky, heavily built; massive.

  2. 2

    Unwieldy.

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