hulking

Large and bulky, heavily built; massive.not-comparable

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

Unwieldy.not-comparable

present participle and gerund of hulkform-ofgerundparticiple

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• The sand-hills have permanently disappeared from many parts of the coast and have been replaced by clay embankments, timber hulkings, and, during the pre-war years, by mass-concrete stepwork.