Mary Roach

There are three kinds of people in this world: 1) People who make lists, 2) People who don't make lists, and 3) People who carve tiny Nativity scenes out of pecan hulls. I'm sorry, there isn't really a third category; it's just that a workable list needs a minimum of three items, I feel.

American Author

Charlie Pierce

Launching a newspaper without a coherent idea of how you're going to promote it, or get it to people who might want to read it, is like launching a boat without a rudder or an engine... or a hull, now that I think about it.

American Journalist

Mark Kurlansky

Commercial fishing is always so behind the curve of technology that they were building ships with wooden hulls and masts in the 1940s, though it also had a diesel engine, which probably was used most of the time.

Steven Gundry

The most troublesome plant lectins are found in the hulls of grains, in beans and legumes, and the nightshade family - specifically the peels and seeds of tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, etc.

Tomas Transtromer

Society's dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place - the place of our separation, our distinction - that much of his poetry occupies.

Swedish Writer

Rohan Marley

I remember my grandmother drying wild coffee berries in the sun, then hulling and roasting them for her own cup of coffee each morning.

American Athlete

Graham Hawkes

Pressure hulls collapse at the speed of sound. Once that starts, you're inside your own little imploding atomic bomb, and you're gone.

English Designer

Lowell Thomas

Separately there was only wind, water, sail, and hull, but at my hand the four had been given purpose and direction.

Used predominantly in nautical contexts to describe the main structure of ships and boats.

Maritime Vocabulary

Condition of the hull is crucial for a vessel's seaworthiness and safety at sea.

Safety Relevance

Sometimes used metaphorically to describe the main structure of things other than ships.

Metaphoric Usage

Frequently used in cooking to describe the act of removing the outer covering of small fruits and seeds.

Culinary Context

In gardening and farming, refers to the discarded outer layers after processing seeds or grains.

Gardening Reference

Often used in recipes or cooking instructions when preparing fruit, like berries or seeds.

Food Preparation

Hull is the short name for a city in England with its unique history and culture, good for geography lessons.

Geographic Identity

Mentioned commonly in British travel and education contexts due to its university and tourist sites.

Travel and Study

 here in the open ocean second of all you can't flip the thing upside down so that means divers have got to go in and do it from the bottom in order to free up the old thruster they'll have to attach cables to the top of it and drop it out the bottom of the hull then a giant crane will lift the thruster onto a waiting support vessel they'll transfer

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 it's not trash. They can actually put this in their natural ecosystem without any processing, and it's going to improve the local soil. So, why mycelium? The first reason is local open feedstocks. You want to be able to do this anywhere in the world and not worry about peak rice hull or peak cottonseed hulls, because you have multiple choices.

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 the space is zoned for retail you have to come up with something you've got to sell something you can't just you know have a tutoring center so we thought haha while we were renovating this place somebody said you know really kind of looks like the hull of a ship and somebody else said well you should sell

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 meat and it was pretty horrific there was chunk there were chunks of meat in the water she came up underneath the boat she rammed the penguin underneath the hull of the boat almost knock in the water we had to sit down she was longer than our 12 foot long Zodiac boat and that's when you Don my guide said

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 using this shape-shifting hull. And what puts us together is that we have a common, at least, global understanding of what the word "business" is, or what it should be. This is how most work today. Business as usual is saying, what's most important is to make lots of profit, and you'll be using

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 But when a British destroyer came to collect the prisoners, they found an unexpected survivor - a black and white cat clinging to a floating plank. For the next several months this cat hunted rats and raised British morale - until a sudden torpedo strike shattered the hull and sank the ship.

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 and the sense of motion. It also plays with our ability to abstract and make complex associations. Look at the following sentence. "The world was ghost-quiet, except for the crack of sails and the burbling of water against hull."

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 the hull from flooding. This caused many to believe that the ship was unsinkable. Such confidence led to the unfortunate decision to cut the number of lifeboats on board in half in order to make the deck look clean and elegant.

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 And the only life worth knowing is in the shipyard Steel in the stockyard, iron in the soul Would conjure up a ship Where there used to be a hull And we don't know what we'll do

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 the soft corals are one of the main reasons that all this life is attracted to the yongala almost every available space on its once smooth hull is covered with them

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