Hull

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. The outer covering of anything, particularly of a nut or of grain; the outer skin of a kernel; the husk.

2. The frame or body of a vessel, exclusive of her masts, yards, sails, and rigging. Deep in their hulls our deadly bullets light. Dryden. Hull down, said of a ship so distant that her hull is concealed by the convexity of the sea.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

1. To strip off or separate the hull or hulls of; to free from integument; as, to hull corn.

2. To pierce the hull of, as a ship, with a cannon ball.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To toss or drive on the water, like the hull of a ship without sails. [Obs.] Shak. Milton.