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 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. “Some well-timbered hulk.”
 2. A heavy ship of clumsy build.
 3. Anything bulky or unwieldly.
 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. [Eng.] --Dickens.