hulking

1. not comparableLarge and bulky, heavily built; massive.

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

   2001, Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl, page 212

2. not comparableUnwieldy.

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of hulk

plural hulkings

1. A kind of sloping embankment used as a coastal defence.

   The sand-hills have permanently disappeared from many parts of the coast and have been replaced by clay embankments, timber hulkings, and, during the pre-war years, by mass-concrete stepwork.

   1953, The Institution of Civil Engineers, Proceedings (volume 2, part 2, page 513)