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🌽 Dry outer covering 🌽 To remove covering
to husk

to husk

2 3.9
To remove the dry outer covering from seeds or corn
  • verb
  • /hʌsk/
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  • At ten that morning, Frieda was standing at a table in the tiny, torrid kitchen of the First Lady Restaurant husking newly picked corn.
  • husking corn
  • husked ears of corn
  • fresh corn, husked

How this scenario reflects all American scientists zeroed in on the diversity of wheats, grains dry husked and rubbed to a staticky charge.

Examples

  • Toby is on the utility porch husking the 55 horse chestnuts.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • This morning, I was husking the coconuts and...

    Moana (2016)

  • With a knife and a pair of pliers, he husks the chestnuts.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • His skin had a permanent pink hue from too many summers husking corn in the Nebraska sun.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • They and Anne and the younger children were husking fresh almonds on the terrace beside the house.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • Monsieur Augustin stacked twigs and dropped plantains and husked corn on the pile.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • Every summer, our family gets together to husk the corn we grow in our garden.

  • She learned to husk the coconuts efficiently by watching her grandmother.

  • Before cooking the corn, he carefully husked each ear, revealing the tender kernels inside.

Synonyms

to shell
vsto husk
18 2.1

To remove the hard outer covering from nuts, peas, or seafood

is specific to grains seeds and corn not to nuts or seafood
to hull
vsto husk
4 5.5

To remove the outer covering from seeds, nuts, or fruit

is mainly used for grains and corn rather than fruit or vegetables
to dehull
vsto husk
  • Specialized
7.2

To remove the outer shell from seeds and grains like rice or beans

is used mainly for grains and corn rather than legumes

Antonyms

to cover
∞ 1.0

To put something over another thing to protect or hide it

to enclose
84 3.7

Surround something completely, often with a wall or fence

Compounds

dried husk
4.0

The dry outer covering of a seed or fruit that you remove before eating

Mexican husk tomato
  • US
6.7

A small edible fruit like a tomato, wrapped in a dry papery husk

Mexican husk tomato
  • US
6.6

A plant that produces small edible fruits like tiny tomatoes inside a dry papery husk

husk tomato
  • US
6.9

A small round fruit like a green tomato with a thin papery case

Surface Forms

husk infinitive
husked past
husked past participle
husking present participle
husks third person singular

Etymology

The verb husk comes from the same idea of a seed's tiny 'house' and simply means to take that 'house' off. So to husk corn is to remove the dry outer shell that keeps the grain safe.