Noun

A kind of sloping embankment used as a coastal defence.

Verb

To reduce (a ship) to a (nonfunctional) hulk. To be a hulk, a large (hulking) and often imposing presence. To move (one's large, hulking body). To remove the entrails of; to disembowel.

Adjective

Large and bulky, heavily built; massive. Unwieldy.