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Hull

Noun

Definitions

1.NounThe outer covering of a fruit or seed.
2.NounAny covering.
3.VerbTo remove the outer covering of a fruit or seed.
"She sat on the back porch hulling peanuts."
4.NounThe body or frame of a vessel, such as a ship or plane.
5.NounThe smallest set that possesses a particular property (such as convexity) and contains every point of A; slightly more formally, the intersection of all sets which possess the specified property and of which A is a subset.
"The orthogonal convex hull of an orthogonal polygon is the smallest orthogonally convex polygon that encloses the original polygon.; holomorphically convex hull; affine hull; injective hull"
6.VerbTo drift; to be carried by the impetus of wind or water on the ship's hull alone, with sails furled.
7.VerbTo hit (a ship) in the hull with cannon fire etc.
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