Chapter Howdah to Hull of H by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

Hulda [the Benignant]. Goddess of marriage and fecundity, who sent bridegrooms to maidens and children to the married. (German.) (See Berchta.)
   Hulda is making her bed. It snows. (See above.)

Hulk An old ship unfit for service. (Anglo-Saxon, hulc, from Mid. Latin hulca, connected with Greek olkas = a ship which is towed, a merchant ship.)

Hulking A great hulking fellow. A great overgrown one. A bulk is a big, lubberly fellow, applied to Falstaff by Shakespeare. It means the body of an old ship. (See above.)
   The monster sausage brought in on Christmas day was called a haulkin or haukin.

Hull

"From Hull, Hell, and Halifax
Good Lord, deliver us."

   This occurs in Taylor, the water poet. Hull is not the town so called, but a furious river in Kingston, very dangerous. In regard to Halifax, the allusion is to the law that the theft of goods to the value of 13d. shall subject the thief to execution "by a jyn."