Hulk /(?)/

Hulk

n.
  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.
  2. A heavy ship of clumsy build.
  3. Anything bulky or unwieldly.

Phrases & Compounds

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.

Hulk

v. t.
  1. To take out the entrails of; to disembowel; as, to hulk a hare. [R.]