Found 5 hits - Term: shuck, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
shuck \shuck\ shu^k, n.
a shock of grain. prev. eng.
1913 webster
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
1913 webster
2. the shell of an oyster or clam. u. s.
1913 webster
- [3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
see also:
shucked shucking
- [4] : WordNet (r) 2.0
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"
see also:
chaff husk stalk straw stubble
- [5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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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