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Abandoned ship
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hulk
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The Hulk is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics . The character was created by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby , and first appeared in The Incredible Hulk #1 (May 1962). He is also noted as one of the ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English hulc "light, fast ship" (but in Middle English a heavy, unwieldy one), probably from Old Dutch hulke and Medieval Latin hulcus , perhaps ultimately from Greek holkas "merchant ship," literally "ship that is towed," from helkein "to pull" (from ...
Usage examples of hulk.
Hal anchored well clear of these burned and battered hulks, and Fasilides sent one of his servants ashore in the longboat.
In the space of just a few minutes she had seen ten armed men carrying suitcases, a sable-garbed woman with two steel hooks for hands, and now a diamond-studded blond followed by a hulking, apish brute of a man.
One beholder had lost an eyestalk to an umber hulk, and then, in anger, had ordered the ogre allies to dismember the hulk instandy.
I had seen this hulking Bohunk or throwback Polack from my study window, busying himself down on the street, always ready to flex his primitive can-do and know-how.
Legion General Bill Booly followed the corridor that circled the outer edge of the wheel-shaped space station, he found himself rubbing shoulders with all manner of fellow beings, including brightly feathered Prithians, hulking Hudathans, work-worn androids, exoskeleton-clad Dwellers, cybernetic humans, and more.
And, near breakaway point, there was the hulk of a ship unlike anything seen before.
A bit farther down the bar rail, a massive, hulking slob named Bungo had eyed Wulfgar from the minute the young barbarian had walked through the door.
I was looking at the repulsive sight in silence, when a great hulking fellow, whose appearance suggested the blacksmith, and his voice the blackguard, came up to me and asked me in bad Italian if I would like to dance.
Gasman whispered, telling Iggy where the window was as his brain registered the hulking Eraser filling the doorway.
And Monsieur and Madame Fontanelle looked on their daughter as they would have done on a son who had just been released from the hulks.
He was a powerful-looking figure with hulking shoulders, gangling arms, and a blocky, almost handsome face.
She seemed sexless, genderless, sitting opposite him with the lethal38 pointed at the black hulk of the bag.
I heard, three years after, that he had been condemned to the hulks for selling tickets of a Trevaux lottery which was nonexistent, and in the hulks he died.
Knot was eight feet of hulking matted hairiness and Sab resembled a leather lion with wings.
If a campus was a green quadrilateral described by hulking, hederated Gothics, then this was a campus.