Meaning & use
hull
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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