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(nautical, archaic) A large ship used for transportation; (more generally) a large ship that is difficult to maneuver.

(nautical, by extension) A non-functional but floating ship, usually stripped of equipment and rigging, and often put to other uses such as accommodation or storage.

(figuratively) A large structure with a dominating presence.

(figuratively) A big (and possibly clumsy) person.

(bodybuilding) An excessively muscled person.

(nautical)

To reduce (a ship) to a non-functional hulk.

To temporarily house (goods, people, etc.) in such a hulk.

To move (a large, hulking body).

To be a hulk, that is, a large, hulking, and often imposing presence.

Of a (large) person: to act or move slowly and clumsily.

(obsolete except British, dialectal) To remove the entrails of; to disembowel.