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Hull vs Mull - What's the difference?

hull | mull |

As a verb hull

is .

As a noun mull is

trash, garbage, refuse, waste.

hull

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • The outer covering of a fruit or seed
    • Synonyms
    * (outer covering of fruit or seed ): husk, shell
    Derived terms
    * ahull * monohull * multihull * twinhull * tank hull * hull-down

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To remove the outer covering of a fruit or seed.
    • She sat on the back porch hulling peanuts.
    Synonyms
    * (to remove hull of a fruit or seed ): peel, husk, shell, shuck

    Etymology 2

    Origin uncertain; perhaps the same word as Etymology 1, above.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The body or frame of a vessel such as a ship or plane
  • * Dryden
    • Deep in their hulls our deadly bullets light.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (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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    mull

    English

    Etymology 1

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate; usually with over.
    • to mull a thought or a problem
    he paused to mull over his various options before making a decision
  • * 1912 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 5
    • It was the germ of a thought, which, however, was destined to mull around in his conscious and subconscious mind until it resulted in magnificent achievement.
  • To powder; to pulverize.
  • To chop marijuana so that it becomes a smokable form.
  • To heat and spice something, such as wine.
  • To join two or more individual windows at mullions.
  • To dull or stupefy.
    • Derived terms
    * mulled wine, mulled cider

    Noun

  • A thin, soft muslin.
  • (uncountable) Marijuana that has been chopped to prepare it for smoking.
  • A stew of meat, broth, milk, butter, vegetables, and seasonings, thickened with soda crackers.
  • The gauze used in bookbinding to adhere a text block to a book's cover.
  • An inferior kind of madder prepared from the smaller roots or the peelings and refuse of the larger.
    • Synonyms
    * See also

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Scotland) A promontory.
    • the Mull of Kintyre
  • A snuffbox made of the small end of a horn.

    • Etymology 3

    Probably related to mould.

    Noun

    (-)
  • dirt; rubbish
    • (Gower)
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