hulking

• IPA^(key): /ˈhʌlkɪŋ/

hulking (not comparable)

1. Large and bulky.
2. Tall and heavily built.
3. Unwieldy.

• 2001 — Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl, p 212

  A hulking shape burst through the doorway and hurtled down the corridor, leaving a maelstrom of air currents in his wake.

hulking (plural hulkings)

1. A kind of sloping embankment used as a coastal defence.
   • 1953, The Institution of Civil Engineers, Proceedings (volume 2, part 2, page 513)

     The sand-hills have permanently disappeared from many parts of the coast and have been replaced by clay embankments, timber hulkings, and, during the pre-war years, by mass-concrete stepwork.

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