Hull vs Hula - What's the difference?
hull | hula |
To remove the outer covering of a fruit or seed.
The body or frame of a vessel such as a ship or plane
* Dryden
(obsolete, intransitive, nautical) To drift; to be carried by the impetus of wind or water on the ship's hull alone, with sails furled
*, II.1:
*:We goe not, but we are carried: as things that flote, now gliding gently, now hulling violently, according as the water is, either stormy or calme.
To hit (a ship) in the hull with cannon fire etc.
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A form of chant and dance, which was developed in the Hawaiian Islands by the Polynesians who originally settled there.
As nouns the difference between hull and hula
is that hull is the outer covering of a fruit or seed while hula is a form of chant and dance, which was developed in the Hawaiian Islands by the Polynesians who originally settled there.As a verb hull
is to remove the outer covering of a fruit or seed.As a proper noun Hull
is any of various cities in the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States (see the Wikipedia article).hull
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) .Synonyms
* (outer covering of fruit or seed ): husk, shellDerived terms
* ahull * monohull * multihull * twinhull * tank hull * hull-downVerb
(en verb)- She sat on the back porch hulling peanuts.
Synonyms
* (to remove hull of a fruit or seed ): peel, husk, shell, shuckEtymology 2
Origin uncertain; perhaps the same word as Etymology 1, above.Noun
(en noun)- Deep in their hulls our deadly bullets light.