hulked

Verb (1)

hulk (third-person singular simple present hulks, present participle hulking, simple past and past participle hulked)

1. (transitive) To reduce (a ship) to a non-functional hulk.
   • In Fremantle very few vessels appear to have been reduced to hulks, and only one figure head Samuel Plimsoll, [Fig. 62] survives from a sailing ship hulked in 1904. [...] The Sarah Burnyeat was hulked in Albany in 1886, [...]2003, Gordon de L. Marshall, Ships' Figure Heads in Australia, Tangee Publishing, →ISBN, page 52
2. (transitive) To temporarily house (goods, people, etc.) in such a hulk.
3. (transitive) To move (a large, hulking body).
   • This hearty, willing man had hulked his 354 pounds about the world, faithfully and deftly running presidential errands in Cuba, Panama, the Philippines, Rome, Russia, and Japan and China.1968, Francis Russell, The Shadow of Blooming Grove - Warren G. Harding in His Times, →ISBN
4. (intransitive) To be a hulk, that is, a large, hulking, and often imposing presence.
   • After one trip with them, he decided he couldn't stand to have bodyguards hulking around him wherever he went. He felt like an idiot walking along the aisles of the supermarket with eight lumpy men standing around [...]1992, Richard Condon, The Venerable Bead, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 163
5. (intransitive) Of a (large) person: to act or move slowly and clumsily.
   • After a while he hulked up to where Erland sat, putting his hairy fist on the table and watching the boy work.1934, Gösta Larsson, Our Daily Bread: A Novel

Verb (2)

hulk (third-person singular simple present hulks, present participle hulking, simple past and past participle hulked)

1. (dialectal, transitive, obsolete except UK) To remove the entrails of; to disembowel.
   • And with this ſwaſhing blow, do you ſwear Prince; / I could hulk your Grace, and hang you up croſs-legg'd, / Like a Hare at a Poulters, and do this with this wiper.c. 1608–1610, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “Philaster: Or, Love Lies a Bleeding”, in Fifty Comedies and Tragedies. […], [part 1], London: […] J[ohn] Macock [and H. Hills], for John Martyn, Henry...

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