Hull

1. The frame or body of a vessel, exclusive of her masts, yards, sails, and rigging.
2. To pierce the hull of, as a ship, with a cannon ball.
3. To toss or drive on the water, like the hull of a ship without sails.
4. The outer covering of anything, particularly of a nut or of grain; the outer skin of a kernel; the husk.
5. To strip off or separate the hull or hulls of; to free from integument; as, to hull corn.