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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

... did, en shuck de stift'nes out'n my bones, en I look 'way 'cross de river ter de top er de hill whar de road lead. I look en ...

— Mingo - And Other Sketches in Black and White • Joel Chandler Harris

... had talked with the peace commissioners at Hampton Roads. After a little conversation, he asked me if I had seen that overcoat of Stephens's. I replied that I had. "Well," said he, "did you see him take it off?" I said yes. "Well," said he, "didn't you think it was the biggest shuck and the littlest ear that ever you did see?" Long afterwards I told this story to the Confederate General J. B. Gordon, at the time a member of the Senate. He repeated it to Stephens, and, as I heard afterwards, Stephens laughed immoderately at the ...

— Memoirs of Three Civil War Generals, Complete • U. S. Grant, W. T. Sherman, P. H. Sheridan

... but few of 'em tuk a fancy to spake to me, an' whin they did I shuck me head, an' touched me lips, so ...

— The Pirate City - An Algerine Tale • R.M. Ballantyne

... sheetin' machines. And they're figgered to use up fifty-five thousand horse power of the five hundred thousand we got harnessed on this great little old river that falls off the highlands. That power is ours winter an' summer. It don't matter a shuck the 'freeze up.' It's there for us all the darn time. Then we've forest limits to hand us the cordage for that output that could give us three times what we're needing for a thousand years. Labour? We got it plenty. And later, by closing in our system of foresting, I figger ...

— The Man in the Twilight • Ridgwell Cullum

... about four doors of Pa, he saw the great father, and stood up on his hind legs, and looked as big as a brewery horse, and he opened his mouth and said: "Woof," just like that. That was too much for my Pa, who began to shuck his clothes, and then started on a run towards the mouth of the canyon. The bear looked around as much as to say: "Well, what do you think of that?" and we watched Pa sprinting toward the Indian camp like ...

— Peck's Bad Boy With the Cowboys • Hon. Geo. W. Peck

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