Dictionary Entry
husk
husk is a 4-letter English word with 6 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The external covering or envelope of certain fruits or seeds; glume; hull; rind; in the United States, especially applied to the covering of the ears of maize. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 11 · 6 senses
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- 1noun
The external covering or envelope of certain fruits or seeds; glume; hull; rind; in the United States, especially applied to the covering of the ears of maize.
- 2noun
The supporting frame of a run of millstones.
- 3transitive verb
To strip off the external covering or envelope of; as, to husk Indian corn.
- 4noun
outer membranous covering of some fruits or seeds
- 5noun
material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
- 6verb
remove the husks from
"husk corn"
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