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verb

Shuck v. t. (past & past part. shucked; pres. part. shucking)

To deprive of the shucks or husks; as, to shuck walnuts, Indian corn, oysters, etc.

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." "He had only been in Africa long enough to shuck off the notions he had acquired about the engineering of a west coast colony."

noun

Shuck n. A shock of grain. (Prev. Eng.)

Shuck n.

A shell, husk, or pod; especially, the outer covering of such nuts as the hickory nut, butternut, peanut, and chestnut.

The shell of an oyster or clam. (U. S.)

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Etymology of 'Shuck'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Shuck" Quotes from Famous Books

... hear much about anything on Hue and Cry till they come and tell us. Speaking for myself, I ain't so awful much fussed up. I've got a house-bo't to take my wife and young ones on, and we'll keep on digging clams for trawlers—sixty cents a bucket, shucked, and we can dig and shuck a bucket a day, all hands turning to. We won't starve. But I pity the poor critters that 'ain't got a house-bo't. Looks like they'd need wings. I ain't worrying a mite, I say. I had the best house on the island, and the state has allowed a hundred ...

— Blow The Man Down - A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 • Holman Day

... black," said Mrs. Drake, "or pure white. Colors as full of life as this dress has would die dead on a dingy complexion like Mary's, or any of the Cobb women, for that matter. They look for the world as if they lived on coffee and couldn't git it out of their systems. Dolly, shuck off your ...

— The Desired Woman • Will N. Harben

... yourself." Topham ignored the departure. "Leon Rivas, Bartolome's son, will be up on Oro; he always rides for Rennie. He's younger than you, but I'd say"—the gambler studied Drew's lithe body critically—"you're about matched in weight. I'd shuck that gun belt, though, and anything else you can. And good luck, Kirby. You'll need all of ...

— Rebel Spurs • Andre Norton

... panted the Negro. "De rails is done gone twist wid de shakes. Dey lays like er heap ob corn-shuck in de win' up yander. Dat ar train don' know hit, an' she'll go to Day ob Jedgment, an' ebery soul aboard ob her! I'se run like de nation fer to warn ...

— A Lost Hero • Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward and Herbert D. Ward

... now, and looked perplexedly into the flames. "It's like a word that gits onto the end of your tongue when your brain-box ain't got sense enough to shuck it out," he remarked, lowly. "But I'll git it, some time—if I don't go loco frettin' ...

— The Range Boss • Charles Alden Seltzer

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