hulk a ship, generally a heavy or large ship
(
“A Hulk, great ship. Corbita.”
Coles's Lat. and Engl.
Dict.
):
“Provokes the mightiest hulk against the tide,”
1 HENRY VI., v. 5. 6
;
“though greater hulks draw deep,”
TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, ii. 3.
260.