Hull

Webster's Practical Dictionary- A Practical Dictionary of the Englih Language · 1884 · p. 196

hul, n. The outer covering 'of anything, a nut or of grain; the husk. (jSTaut.) The frame body of a ve el: see Ship. — v. t. [hulled hulling.] To strip off or separate the hull or of; to pierce the hull of (a ship).