(1):
(v. t.) The frame or body of a vessel, exclusive of her masts, yards, sails, and rigging.
(2):
(v. t.) The outer covering of anything, particularly of a nut or of grain; the outer skin of a kernel; the husk.
(3):
(v. t.) To pierce the hull of, as a ship, with a cannon ball.
(4):
(v. t.) To strip off or separate the hull or hulls of; to free from integument; as, to hull corn.
(5):
(v. i.) To toss or drive on the water, like the hull of a ship without sails.