hulls
/hʌlz/noun
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The outer covering of a fruit or seed.
Any covering.
verb
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To remove the outer covering of a fruit or seed.
Example: She sat on the back porch hulling peanuts.
noun
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The body or frame of a vessel, such as a ship or plane.
(of a set A) 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.
Example: The orthogonal convex hull of an orthogonal polygon is the smallest orthogonally convex polygon that encloses the original polygon.
verb
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To drift; to be carried by the impetus of wind or water on the ship's hull alone, with sails furled.
To hit (a ship) in the hull with cannon fire etc.