a hog-stye. N.
·vt To pierce the hull of, as a ship, with a cannon ball. II. Hull ·vi To toss or drive on the wate...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
A vulgar pronunciation of the word whole very common in New England. ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
The Gothic hulga meant a husk or external covering, and hence the body of a ship, independent of mas...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·noun Any animal of the hog kind, especially one of the domestical species. Swine secrete a large am...
(Heb. hazir), regarded as the most unclean and the most abhorred of all animals (Lev. 11:7; Isa. 65:...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
(Heb. chazir). The flesh of swine was forbidden as food by the Levitical law, (Leviticus 11:7; 14:8)...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
A ship under bare poles and her helm a-lee, driving from wind and sea, stern foremost. Also a ship d...
Is said of a ship when at such a distance that, from the convexity of the globe, only her masts and ...
The situation of a ship when she is lying a-hull, or with all her sails furled. ...
·noun A variety of the chicken pox, with acuminated vesicles containing a watery fluid; the water po...
a hog-stye. N. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
i. e. whine-pipe, the Red-wing. Pennant. ...
The porpoise [from the German meerschwein]. ...
The porpoise. ...
A northern name of the wolf-fish, Anarhichas lupus. ...
Synonymous with hull to, or hulling. ...