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hulk 音标拼音: [h'ʌlk] n. 笨重的船,废船 笨重的船,废船 hulk n 1: a very large person; impressive in size or qualities [ synonym: { 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" [ synonym: { loom}, { tower}, { predominate}, { hulk}] 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. [ 1913 Webster] 2. A heavy ship of clumsy build. -- Skeat. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Anything bulky or unwieldly. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] { 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. [ 1913 Webster]
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. Hulking52 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
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