meaning of husk

1. 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.
2.
The supporting frame of a run of millstones.
3.
To strip off the external covering or envelope of; as, to husk Indian corn.
4.
outer membranous covering of some fruits or seeds


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