shuck

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A husk, pod, or shell, as of a pea, hickory nut, or ear of corn.
2. n. The shell of an oyster or clam.
3. n. Informal Something worthless. Often used in the plural: an issue that didn't amount to shucks.
4. v. To remove the husk or shell from.
5. v. Informal To cast off: shucked their coats and cooled off; a city trying to shuck a sooty image.
6. interj. Used to express mild disappointment, disgust, or annoyance.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To shake.
2. n. A husk or pod: used especially of the epicarp of hickory-nuts and walnuts, the prickly involucre of chestnuts, etc., also, in England, of the pods of peas, etc., and, in some parts of the United States, of the husks of maize.
3. n. The shell of the oyster.
4. n. A case or covering, as that of the larva of a caddis-fly.
5. To remove the husk, pod, or shell from: in the United States said especially of the husking of corn or the shelling of oysters.
6. To take; strip: with off.
7. n. A shock; a stook.
8. n. The devil.
9. A call to pigs.

Wiktionary

1. n. The shell or husk, especially of grains (e.g. corn/maize) or nuts (e.g. walnuts).
2. n. slang, African American Vernacular A fraud; a scam.
3. n. slang A phony.
4. v. transitive To remove the shuck from (walnuts, oysters, etc.).
5. v. transitive To remove (any outer covering).
6. v. transitive, intransitive, slang To fool; to hoax.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. Prev. Eng. A shock of grain.
2. n. A shell, husk, or pod; especially, the outer covering of such nuts as the hickory nut, butternut, peanut, and chestnut.
3. n. United States The shell of an oyster or clam.
4. v. To deprive of the shucks or husks
5. v. colloq. To remove or take off (shucks); hence, to discard; to lay aside; -- usually with off.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. remove from the shell
2. v. remove the shucks from
3. n. material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds