hollow object; socket (like the shaft socket on a speartip) · a nest box, a birdhouse · a hulk, an old, decommissioned ship (used for storage or housing)
çekim: çoğul holkar · tamlayan holks
köken: From Old Swedish holker, from Old Norse holkr, from Proto-Germanic *hulkaz (“cavity, hollow, recess”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover, hide, conceal”). Cognate with Icelandic hólkur, English hulk.