The Meaning of husk

• (n.) 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.
• (n.) The supporting frame of a run of millstones.
• (v. t.) To strip off the external covering or envelope of; as, to husk Indian corn.

Synonyms

chaff , shuck , stalk , straw , stubble , shell

Rhymes

bruske , brusque , busk , buske , cornhusk , cusk , dusk , kuske , lusk , musk , rusk , tusk