Meaning & use

hull

noun·Advanced

The main body or frame of a ship or boat, or the outer covering of a seed or fruit.

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Waves crashed against the wooden hull as the small boat pushed through the storm.

She removed the hull from each strawberry before adding them to the salad.

A note on using this word

Hull refers to a ship's body in nautical contexts and to a seed's or fruit's outer covering in cooking and gardening.

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