Brewer's: Hulk

An old ship unfit for service. (Anglo-Saxon, hule, from Mid. Latin hulca, connected with Greek ó= a ship which is towed, a merchant ship.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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