noun

• (nautical)
  "Light boates ſaile ſwift, though greater hulkes draw deepe."
• (nautical)
  "They could see the lighthouse shining on Quarantine Island, and the green lights on the old coal hulks."
• (figuratively) A large structure with a dominating presence.
  "The sturdy trunk of Central Park Tower is rising nearby – a great glass hulk that will soon steal the crown for the most vertiginous residences on the planet."
• (figuratively) A big (and possibly clumsy) person.

verb

• (transitive, nautical)
  "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, [...]"
• (transitive, nautical)
• (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."
• (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 [...]"

verb

• (transitive, obsolete except British, dialectal) 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."

noun

• (by extension) A strongman.