husk

Meaning

1. The dry, leafy or stringy exterior of certain vegetables or fruits, which must be removed before eating the meat inside.
2. Any form of useless, dried-up, and subsequently worthless exterior of something.
3. The supporting frame of a run of millstones.

shell

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coconut husk

rice bran

untanned pelt

decorticatie

episperm

vegetables

supporting framework

paddy husk

smallest grain

rice husk

hud

crust tyre

tikitiki

bran and middlings

peel-back

dried cornstalk

waste fibre

chip off

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/hʌsk/

From Middle English huske (“husk”). Perhaps from Old English *husuc, *hosuc (“little covering, sheath”), diminutive of hosu (“pod, shell, husk”), from Proto-West Germanic *hosā, from Proto-Germanic *husǭ, *hausaz (“covering, shell, leggings”), from Proto-Indo-European *kawəs- / kawes- (“cover”). If so, equivalent to hose + -ock. Alternatively from Middle Low German hūske(n) (“little house, sheath”), Middle Dutch hūskijn (“little house, core of fruit, case”), diminutive of hūs (“house”). Compare Dutch huisje, German Häuschen, both also used for “snailshell”.