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   hulk

   /həlk/

   noun

   • 1. an old ship stripped of fittings and permanently moored, especially for use as storage or (formerly) as a prison. Similar wreckshipwreckruinshellskeletonhullframeframeworkderelict
   • ▪ any large disused structure: "hulks of abandoned machinery"
   • 2. a large or unwieldy boat or other object: "great towering hulks of oak, ash, and chestnut"
   • ▪ a large, clumsy-looking person: "a six-foot hulk of a man" Similar oafinformal:clodhopperapegorillalummoxklutzgalootarchaic:lubberclodpole

   Word Origin Old Englishhulc ‘fast ship’, probably reinforced in Middle English by Middle Low German and Middle Dutch hulk; probably of Mediterranean origin and related to Greek holkas ‘cargo ship’.

   Scrabble Points: 11

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