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noun

plural of husk

as in sheaths

something that encloses another thing especially to protect it corn husks a high stone wall is the husk that protects the actor from prying curiosity seekers

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verb

present tense third-person singular of husk

as in peels

to remove the natural covering of the tedious task of husking coconuts

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Noun

Coconut husks are used as charcoal in the restaurant and signature open-grill dining. —

Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Apr. 2026 Also known as wheat kernels, wheat berries are encased in husks zipped along the tops of stalks and removed in a process known as threshing. —

The New York Times News Service Syndicate, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Apr. 2026 These are Chinese, of course, and are made by coating duck eggs in a paste of salt, wood ash, lime, and black tea and burying them among rice husks in huge ceramic jars for 100 days. —

Jeffrey Steingarten, Vogue, 5 Apr. 2026 How to Store Corn To store sweet corn effectively, Scott recommends leaving the husks on and placing the corn in your refrigerator's crisper drawer. —

Sj McShane, Martha Stewart, 3 Apr. 2026 Reprisal attacks were widespread, hitting at least 20 states, and days after the chaos, the charred husks of vehicles and Oxxo convenience stores still were visible heading west out of Guadalajara, the state capital, toward the Pacific. —

Senior Editor, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2026 Many of the tens of thousands of homes are hollow husks of concrete and alabaster. —

Albee Zhang, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2026 Or the hundreds of husks left on the ground, brown, semitransparent, upholding the shape of the life that had once been but was now gone? —

Yiyun Li, New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2026 In a food processor, add cannellini beans and squeeze the roasted garlic cloves out of the husks atop the beans. —

Cathy Thomas, Oc Register, 23 Feb. 2026

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Opt for bigger hanging bulbs, discrete flickers, or even hanging sheaths.

— Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 3 Apr. 2026
The payload was designed to test a hypersonic navigation system capable of accurately identifying spacecraft position, even when communications are blocked by intense plasma sheaths during hypersonic flight.

— Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 1 Apr. 2026