hulk : Idioms & Phrases

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Shear hulk

  • an old ship fitted with an apparatus to fix or take out the masts of a ship.
Webster 1913

Sheer hulk

  • . See Shear hulk, under Hulk.
Webster 1913

The hulks

  • old or dismasted ships, formerly used as prisons. Eng. Dickens.
Webster 1913