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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.
        [1913 Webster]
  


     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.]

















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