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"t": "freighter, cargo ship, barge"
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"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*hulukaz"
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"name": "inh"
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{
"args": {
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"t": "something hollowed or dug out, cavity"
},
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},
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},
{
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"t": "cargo or transport ship, barge"
},
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"name": "cog"
},
{
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"1": "gmh",
"2": "holche"
},
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"name": "cog"
},
{
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"1": "de",
"2": "Holk"
},
"expansion": "German Holk",
"name": "cog"
},
{
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"1": "non",
"2": "hólkr",
"t": "metal tube, ring"
},
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"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "no",
"2": "holk"
},
"expansion": "Norwegian holk",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "no",
"2": "hylke",
"t": "wooden barrel"
},
"expansion": "hylke (“wooden barrel”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
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"2": "holken",
"t": "to dig out, gouge"
},
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"2": "hulcus",
"t": "ship"
},
"expansion": "Medieval Latin hulcus (“ship”)",
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{
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"1": "la",
"2": "holcas"
},
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{
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"1": "grc",
"2": "ὁλκάς",
"t": "ship being towed; cargo ship, ship used for trading, holcad"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek ὁλκάς (holkás, “ship being towed; cargo ship, ship used for trading, holcad”)",
"name": "ncog"
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"2": "ἕλκω",
"t": "to drag"
},
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},
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"name": "sup"
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"name": "cog"
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"etymology_text": "From Middle English hulk, hulke, holke (“hut; shed for hogs; type of ship; husk, pod, shell; large, clumsy person; a giant”) (probably reinforced by\nMiddle Dutch hulk, huelc, and Middle Low German hulk, holk, hollek (“freighter, cargo ship, barge”)), from Old English hulc (“light ship; heavy, clumsy ship; cabin, hovel, hut”), from Proto-West Germanic *huluk, *hulik, from Proto-Germanic *hulukaz, *hulikaz (“something hollowed or dug out, cavity”), equivalent to hole/hollow + -ock. Cognate with Old High German holcho (“cargo or transport ship, barge”) (whence Middle High German holche, modern German Holk), Old Norse hólkr (“metal tube, ring”), dialectal Norwegian holk, hylke (“wooden barrel”), Middle English holken (“to dig out, gouge”).\nRelation to Medieval Latin hulcus (“ship”) is uncertain, as Old English may have borrowed from Latin or vice versa, but the form holcas rather points to borrowing from Ancient Greek ὁλκάς (holkás, “ship being towed; cargo ship, ship used for trading, holcad”) (compare\nAncient Greek ἕλκω (hélkō, “to drag”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *selk- (“to draw, pull”)). See more at the Old English entry hulc.\nThe verb is derived from the noun.",
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"tags": [
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}
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"A large ship used for transportation; (more generally) a large ship that is difficult to manoeuvre."
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"(nautical)",
"(archaic) A large ship used for transportation; (more generally) a large ship that is difficult to manoeuvre."
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],
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"nautical",
"transport"
],
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"_dis1": "78 12 7 1 3",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "large ship that is difficult to manoeuvre",
"word": "bakbeest"
},
{
"_dis1": "78 12 7 1 3",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "large ship that is difficult to manoeuvre",
"word": "joekel"
},
{
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "large ship that is difficult to manoeuvre",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Hulk"
},
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "large ship that is difficult to manoeuvre",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Holk"
},
{
"_dis1": "78 12 7 1 3",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "téžok brod",
"sense": "large ship that is difficult to manoeuvre",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "те́жок брод"
},
{
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"code": "sv",
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"sense": "large ship that is difficult to manoeuvre",
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"ref": "1946 March and April, “Notes and News: Anglo-Irish Steamship Fleets”, in Railway Magazine, page 118",
"text": "A sister ship, originally the Patriotic, and later renamed Lady Leinster and finally the Lady Connaught, was badly damaged by a mine between Liverpool and Belfast; the British & Irish Steam Packet Company next brought [sic] the hulk back from the Belfast Steamship Company and converted her into a livestock carrier.",
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"A non-functional but floating ship, usually stripped of equipment and rigging, and often put to other uses such as accommodation or storage."
],
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[
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[
"stripped",
"strip#Verb"
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[
"equipment",
"equipment"
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[
"rigging",
"rigging#Noun"
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[
"uses",
"use#Noun"
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[
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[
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"(nautical)",
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],
"senseid": [
"en:non-functional ship"
],
"tags": [
"broadly"
],
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"nautical",
"transport"
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"_dis1": "14 70 6 1 9",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "non-functional but floating ship",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "hulk"
},
{
"_dis1": "14 70 6 1 9",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "non-functional but floating ship",
"word": "scheepsromp"
},
{
"_dis1": "14 70 6 1 9",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "non-functional but floating ship",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "épave"
},
{
"_dis1": "14 70 6 1 9",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "non-functional but floating ship",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "casco"
},
{
"_dis1": "14 70 6 1 9",
"code": "de",
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"sense": "non-functional but floating ship",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Hulk"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "non-functional but floating ship",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Holk"
},
{
"_dis1": "14 70 6 1 9",
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "non-functional but floating ship",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "frême"
},
{
"_dis1": "14 70 6 1 9",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "blokšiv",
"sense": "non-functional but floating ship",
"word": "блокшив"
},
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"_dis1": "14 70 6 1 9",
"code": "sv",
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"sense": "non-functional but floating ship",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
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}
]
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"ref": "2019 June 1, Oliver Wainwright, “Super-tall, super-skinny, super-expensive: the ‘pencil towers’ of New York’s super-rich”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-10-05",
"text": "The sturdy trunk of Central Park Tower is rising nearby – a great glass hulk that will soon steal the crown for the most vertiginous residences on the planet.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "2020 August 26, “Network News: Stations Investment Boosts Regeneration, Says Report”, in Rail, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 17",
"text": "Among its findings, the report says: \"In recent years we have seen more stations transformed from run-down Victorian hulks, or spartan bus-sheltered platforms, into places that people can take pride in, feel comfortable in using, and which are fulfilling more of their wider potential.",
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"A large structure with a dominating presence."
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"(figuratively) A large structure with a dominating presence."
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"A big (and possibly clumsy) person."
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"(figuratively) A big (and possibly clumsy) person."
],
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"figuratively"
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},
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"Human behaviour",
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"All topics",
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"A big (and possibly clumsy) person.",
"An excessively muscled person."
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[
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"(figuratively) A big (and possibly clumsy) person.",
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"sense": "excessively muscled person",
"word": "kolos"
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"sense": "excessively muscled person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"_dis1": "1 1 0 11 87",
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"sense": "excessively muscled person",
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"neuter"
],
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"masculine"
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"lang": "German",
"sense": "excessively muscled person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Muskelmann"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 1 0 11 87",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "excessively muscled person",
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},
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"sense": "excessively muscled person",
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"roman": "kačok",
"sense": "excessively muscled person",
"word": "качок"
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"tags": [
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],
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}
]
}
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"sense": "big (and possibly clumsy) person",
"word": "gizonkote"
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 50 50",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "big (and possibly clumsy) person",
"word": "vleesklomp"
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 50 50",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "big (and possibly clumsy) person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lourdaud"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 50 50",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "big (and possibly clumsy) person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "rustre"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 50 50",
"code": "de",
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"sense": "big (and possibly clumsy) person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "Bulle"
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 50 50",
"code": "de",
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"tags": [
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"word": "Riese"
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"sense": "big (and possibly clumsy) person",
"word": "Hüne"
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{
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"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "big (and possibly clumsy) person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "omaccione"
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"roman": "méčka",
"sense": "big (and possibly clumsy) person",
"tags": [
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"sense": "big (and possibly clumsy) person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "matulão"
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 50 50",
"code": "sv",
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"sense": "big (and possibly clumsy) person",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "kluns"
},
{
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{
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"word": "hulk off"
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"ref": "1968, Francis Russell, The Shadow of Blooming Grove - Warren G. Harding in His Times",
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"ref": "1994, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Science and Other Poems, LSU Press, page 16",
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"ref": "2017, N.D.Rabin, Hidden Magic: Fear of the Smallest Wizard, AuthorHouse",
"text": "Hadrian hulked his mass over the spot where the children had disappeared. 'You are still here, aren't you? I can feel your presence.' He walked forwards and his giant strides came down on the children. They scrambled out the way, [...]",
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"ref": "1992, Richard Condon, The Venerable Bead, Macmillan, page 163",
"text": "After one trip with them, he decided he couldn't stand to have bodyguards hulking around him wherever he went. He felt like an idiot walking along the aisles of the supermarket with eight lumpy men standing around [...]",
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"ref": "2006, Angus Dunn, Writing in the Sand, Luath Press Ltd",
"text": "As the occupants stepped out, he hulked at them menacingly and asked them the traditional question. 'Can Ah help youse?'",
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"ref": "2007, Cheryl Strayed, Torch, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, page 156",
"text": "An oven hulked in the middle of the room, detached from everything, and a gathering of objects sat in the corner: a rolled rug with gnarled tassels, a chair from the bar downstairs that was missing a leg, a box [...]",
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"ref": "2008, J. D. Robb, Three in Death, Penguin",
"text": "The remains of an old bar hulked in the center of the room. As it was draped with more dusty protective cloth, she assumed Hopkins had intended to restore it to whatever its former glory might have been.",
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"ref": "2012, Paul Melko, The Broken Universe, Tor Books, page 314",
"text": "The whoosh pushed John down, and as he fell, he turned to see the machine hulking over him, just meters away. “Shit!” he cried [...]",
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"ref": "1934, Gösta Larsson, Our Daily Bread: A Novel",
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"ref": "2008, Craig Conte, Millennial Reign, iUniverse, page 301",
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