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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/27/2018 9:21 AM, Lieven L. Litaer
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<blockquote type="cite" style="color: #000000;">I would expect
to be understood if I called the outer surface of my house
{Som} “hull”.
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Am 26.11.2018 um 17:59 schrieb SuStel:
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<blockquote type="cite" style="color: #000000;">I'd understand you
if you said that in English, too, but it's not the right word.
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Unless he lives in an airplane that's standing in his backyard <span
class="moz-smiley-s1" title=":-)"><span>:-)</span></span></blockquote>
<p>Not even then. To my ear, only boats and ships (including
spaceships, because a century of science-fiction using nautical
terminology for spacecraft have linked the two) have hulls. Not
cars, and not airplanes unless they're flying boats.</p>
<p>According to Wikipedia, "The hull is the watertight body of a
ship or boat."
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hull_(watercraft)"><https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hull_(watercraft)></a> The body
of an airplane is the fuselage.<br>
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<p>Now, I've just does a search for linking the words <i>airplane</i>
and <i>hull,</i> and it seems that when you're dealing with
insuring the vehicle, the word <i>hull</i> is indeed used. This
seems to be special jargon specifically for insurance purposes.</p>
<p>Anyway, the point is that I wouldn't stretch the meaning of a
word to refer to something kinda-sorta like the word unless I were
really desperate. In this case, we're not desperate: we have other
options that have been mentioned in this thread.<br>
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