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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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