hulk

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A heavy, unwieldy ship.
• noun The hull of an old, unseaworthy, or wrecked ship.
• noun An old or unseaworthy ship used as a prison or warehouse.
• noun One, such as a person or object, that is bulky, clumsy, or unwieldy.
• noun A wrecked or abandoned shell of a usually large object, such as a building or vehicle.
• intransitive verb To appear as a massive or towering form; loom.
• intransitive verb To move clumsily.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A ship, particularly a heavy ship.
• noun Anything bulky or unwieldy; a large unwieldy person.
• noun The body of a ship or decked vessel of any kind; particularly, the body of an old ship or vessel which is laid up as unfit for sea-service, or a dismasted wreck.
• noun A hull or husk.
• noun A hut.
• noun A pigsty or a cattle-pen.
• noun The holly.
• To take out the entrails of: as, to hulk a hare.
• In mining, to take down or remove, as the softer part of a lode, before removing the harder part. See gouge, n., 5.
• noun In mining: The removal of the gouge or soft part from the side of the lode before breaking any part of the hard metalliferous portion of it down.
• noun The excavation made by this operation.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb rare To take out the entrails of; to disembowel.
• noun The body of a ship or decked vessel of any kind; esp., the body of an old vessel laid by as unfit for service.
• noun A heavy ship of clumsy build.
• noun Anything bulky or unwieldly.
• noun an old ship fitted with an apparatus to fix or take out the masts of a ship.
• noun [Eng.] old or dismasted ships, formerly used as prisons.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb To remove the entrails of; to disembowel.
• noun a non-functional, but floating ship, usually stripped of rigging and equipment, and often put to other uses such as storage or accommodation.
• noun archaic any large ship that is difficult to maneuver
• noun A big, (and possibly clumsy) person
• noun bodybuilding : An excessively muscled person

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a ship that has been wrecked and abandoned
• verb appear very large or occupy a commanding position
• noun a very large person; impressive in size or qualities