hulled

1. 1
   adjective

   Having had the hulls removed.

   Hulled barley keeps more of its bran than the pearled kind and takes longer to cook.

   The recipe calls for hulled pumpkin seeds, toasted until golden.

   Similarshelled, husked

   Note

   The same spelling can mean two nearly opposite things: hulled seeds have lost their hulls, while a hulled boat has one. Context settles it, since one hull is a husk and the other a ship's body. In the kitchen the word marks a product that has been stripped, as in hulled barley or hulled pumpkin seeds, and it is not compared.

2. 2
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of hull.

   Workers hulled the oats by hand until the mill bought its first machine.

   The frigate was hulled twice by enemy shot but stayed afloat.

   Note

   One spelling serves as both the simple past (workers hulled the oats) and the participle (the frigate was hulled twice). The naval meaning is the surprising one: a ship that was hulled had been struck in its hull by shot, not stripped of anything. An obsolete sailing use, drifting with the sails furled, took the same past form.

3. 3
   adjectivein compounds

   Having a hull of a particular kind or color, named by the word joined in front of it.

   Red-hulled fishing trawlers lined the quay, their nets drying in the sun.

   Wooden-hulled sailboats need far more upkeep than fiberglass ones.

   Note

   It works only in hyphenated compounds, after a color or a material: white-hulled, red-hulled, wooden-hulled. A color compound is the quick way to tell vessels apart at a glance, as in R. S. McNaught's memory, in Railway Magazine in 1951, of "white-hulled yachts crowding Oban Bay" beside red-funnelled mail steamers.

4. 4
   adjective

   Of a boat or other craft, having a hull.

   The islanders gave up their bamboo rafts for hulled canoes that could cross open water.

   Flying boats are hulled aircraft that take off and land directly on the water.

   Note

   The point of the word is contrast: a hulled craft floats on a single body, set apart from rafts and other craft that ride on separate buoyant parts. It reaches beyond boats to flying boats, whose fuselage is itself a hull, and it stays an all-or-nothing description that is never compared.

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