From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Shuck \Shuck\ (sh[u^]k), noun A shock of grain. [Prev. Eng.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Shuck \Shuck\, noun [Perhaps akin to G. shote a husk, pod, shell.]
1. A shell, husk, or pod; especially, the outer covering of such nuts as the hickory nut, butternut, peanut, and chestnut.
2. The shell of an oyster or clam. [U. S.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Shuck \Shuck\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Shucked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Shucking}.]
1. To deprive of the shucks or husks; as, to shuck walnuts, Indian corn, oysters, etc.
2. To remove or take off (shucks); hence, to discard; to lay aside; -- usually with off. [Colloq.]
''Shucking'' his coronet, after he had imbibed several draughts of fire water. --F. A. Ober.
He had only been in Africa long enough to shuck off the notions he had acquired about the engineering of a west coast colony. --Pall Mall Mag. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds [syn: {chaff}, {husk}, {stalk}, {straw}, {stubble}]
verb
1: remove from the shell; "shuck oysters"
2: remove the shucks from; "shuck corn"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
19 Moby Thesaurus words for "shuck": bark, bran, capsule, case, chaff, corn shuck, cornhusk, decorticate, hull, husk, jacket, palea, peel, pod, rind, shell, skin, slough, strip
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