Full record for hull v.

Definition	to make a hole in the hull of a spaceship (usu. in passive)
OED requirements	antedating 1942
Comment	Michael Dolbear submitted a 1995 cite from Elizabeth Moon's "Winning Colors". Mike Christie submitted a 1948 cite from Rene Lafayette's "The Great Air Monopoly". Mike Christie submitted a 1942 cite from L.Ron Hubbard's "Space Can". Fred Galvin submitted a cite from a 1987 reprint of Keith Laumer and Rosel George Brown's "Earthblood", which Mike Christie verified in its 1966 first publication.. Jeff Prucher submitted a cite from a 2002 reprint of Keith Laumer's 1965 "Retief's War". Irene Grumman submitted a cite from a 1972 reprint of Poul Anderson's "Escape From Orbit", which Mike Christie located in the 1962 original publication.
Last modified	6 July, 2008

Citations for hull v.

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1942 L. R. Hubbard Space Can in Astounding Sci. Fiction July 73/2	A small amount of Ensign Gates' placidity left his face. They were being severely knocked about by a vessel which had a longer range and a faster steering system, which was landing four hits to their two. ‘Hulled her!’ cried Ensign Wayton, an invisible source of death forward and above. Evidently something had happened to the Saturnian, for an instant later, in a steady stream, Wayton began to chant the Menace's hits.
1948 ‘R. Lafayette’ in Astounding Sci. Fiction Sept. 81/1	For she wasn't hulled that he could see and her tubes at one end and her Texas at the other were untouched.
1993 D. Carey Great Starship Race Prologue 14	Then the ship was being hulled and all would die.