Noun
a high stone wall is the husk that protects the actor from prying curiosity seekers Verb
the tedious task of husking coconuts
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Noun
This type of soluble fiber comes from the husks (seed coat) of some flowering plants.—Karen Pallarito, Health, 12 May 2024 Psyllium husk, as a supplement, may be particularly helpful with blood sugar management.—Casey Seiden, Verywell Health, 3 May 2024 Question: Some gardeners that live near me use cocoa bean husk mulch.—Melinda Myers, Journal Sentinel, 19 Apr. 2024 Commercial oat flour is ground from oats that haven’t been processed much beyond removing their outer husks and, sometimes, a light toasting to prevent them from going rancid too quickly.—Shilpa Uskokovic, Bon Appétit, 15 Mar. 2024 For instance, fresh corn with its husk will take about 10 minutes to cook, Healthline reports.—Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2024 From finding that mammoth husk in 1992, through the years preparing for publication of these findings in 2017, this theory has been met with considerable pushback.—Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Feb. 2024 Muddle pepper flowers to crush and sift out large husks.—Judy Revenaugh, Kansas City Star, 30 Jan. 2024 O’Connor’s Patrick is all empty swagger, a smirking husk of a man with a gaping, ugly maw of want at his center.—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 12 Apr. 2024
Verb
Ingredients 4 ears fresh yellow corn, husked, silks removed
2 tsp.—Julia Levy, Southern Living, 6 Sep. 2023 The Andaz Maui at Wailea Resort, for example, lets guests husk coconuts, take ukulele and hula lessons, and rent GoPro cameras as part of its $50 daily resort fee.—Catherine Garcia, The Week, 8 Apr. 2023 For less fuss, feel free to fully husk the corn and wrap it in foil.—Sunset Magazine, 1 July 2022 While the fields are no longer burned today, the taste for the dark, smoky flour remains and producers in Puglia and around Italy now make industrialized grano arso flour and dried pastas from husked, deeply toasted grains.—Stacy Adimando, Saveur, 9 Oct. 2017 Some sold for several hundred dollars, husks good only for spare parts.—Aaron Calvin, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2019 As Alex, Sturridge does a good job of husking himself as the story goes sour.—Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2019 To freeze ground cherries, simply spread the husked, washed fruits on a rimmed cookie sheet and place them in the freezer.—The Editors, Good Housekeeping, 31 July 2018
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