English Dictionary

hull

/hʌl/

verb

(obsolete, intransitive, nautical) To drift; to be carried by the impetus of wind or water on the ship's hull alone, with sails furled. / (transitive) To hit (a ship) in the hull with cannon fire etc.

The ship hulls were made of wood.

意味（1）

(obsolete, intransitive, nautical) To drift; to be carried by the impetus of wind or water on the ship's hull alone, with sails furled.

We goe not, but we are carried: as things that flote, now gliding gently, now hulling violently, according as the water is, either stormy or calme.

意味（2）

(transitive) To hit (a ship) in the hull with cannon fire etc.

During this action, we had not a man killed or wounded, although the enemy often hulled us, and once, in particular, a shot coming into one of our ports, dismounted one of our guns between decks […]