HULL (in O.Eng. hulu, from helan, to

See also:

• COVER (from the Fr. convert, from couvrir, to cover, Lat. cooperire)

cover, cf. Ger. Hiille, covering)  , the outer covering, pod, or shell of beans, peas, &c., also the enclosing envelope of a chrysalis . The word may be the same as " bull, " meaning the body of a ship without its masts or superstructure, &c., but in this sense the word is more usually connected with " hold," the interior cargo-carrying part of a vessel . This word was borrowed, as a nautical term, from the Dutch, hol (cognate with " hole "), the d being due to confusion with " to hold," " grasp " (O.Eng. healdan) . The meanings of " hull " and " hold " are somewhat far apart, and the closest sense resemblance is to the word " hulk," which is not known till about a century later .