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Hulk vs Galley - What's the difference?

hulk | galley |

As nouns the difference between hulk and galley

is that hulk is a person resembling, especially physically, the hulk in the marvel comics universe while galley is (nautical) a long, slender ship propelled primarily by oars, whether having masts and sails or not; usually referring to rowed warships used in the mediterranean from the 16th century until the modern era.

As a proper noun hulk

is (comics) a fictional comic-book character who gains superhuman strength when he becomes angry.

hulk

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(en noun)
  • a non-functional, but floating ship, usually stripped of rigging and equipment, and often put to other uses such as storage or accommodation.
  • (archaic) any large ship that is difficult to maneuver
  • A big (and possibly clumsy) person
  • (bodybuilding): An excessively muscled person
    • Quotations
    ;large ship, difficult to maneuver * 1602 , Shakespeare, , act ii, scene 3 *: Light boats sail swift, though greater hulks draw deep. ;non-functioning, floating ship * 1918 , , Prelude'', as printed in ''Selected Stories , Oxford World's Classics (2002), paperback, page 83 *: They could see the lighthouse shining on Quarantine Island, and the green lights on the old coal hulks .

    Etymology 2

    Compare Middle Low German holken to hollow out, and similar Swedish word.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To remove the entrails of; to disembowel.
    • to hulk a hare
    (Beaumont and Fletcher)

    External links

    * (hulk) ----

    galley

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (nautical) A long, slender ship propelled primarily by oars, whether having masts and sails or not; usually referring to rowed warships used in the Mediterranean from the 16th century until the modern era.
  • (British) A light, open boat used on the Thames by customhouse officers, press gangs, and also for pleasure.
  • (nautical) One of the small boats carried by a man-of-war.
  • (nautical) The cookroom or kitchen and cooking apparatus of a vessel or aircraft; sometimes on merchant vessels called the caboose.
  • An oblong oven or muffle with a battery of retorts; a gallery furnace.
  • (printing) An oblong tray of wood or brass, with upright sides, for holding type which has been set, or is to be made up, etc.
  • (printing) A proof sheet taken from type while on a galley; a galley proof.

    • Derived terms

    * galleass * galley slave * galley-worm * galliot

    See also

    * bireme * trireme * quadrireme * unireme/monoreme/penteconter * quinquereme/pentere * polyreme