Shuck

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Shuck \Shuck\ (sh[u^]k), n.
     A shock of grain. [Prev. Eng.]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Shuck \Shuck\, n. [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.
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     2. The shell of an oyster or clam. [U. S.]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Shuck \Shuck\, v. t. [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.
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     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]:

  shuck
       n : 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}]
       v 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