1. 
[syn: chaff, husk, shuck, stalk, straw, stubble]
VERB (2)
1.  remove from the shell; 
- Example: "shuck oysters"
2.  remove the shucks from; 
- Example: "shuck corn"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Shuck \Shuck\ (sh[u^]k), n.
   A shock of grain. [Prev. Eng.]
   [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Shuck \Shuck\, n. [Perhaps akin to G. shote a husk, pod, shell.]
   1. A shell, husk, or pod; especially, the outer covering of
      such nuts as the hickory nut, butternut, peanut, and
      chestnut.
      [1913 Webster]
   2. The shell of an oyster or clam. [U. S.]
      [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Shuck \Shuck\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shucked; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Shucking.]
   1. To deprive of the shucks or husks; as, to shuck walnuts,
      Indian corn, oysters, etc.
      [1913 Webster]
   2. 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.               --F. A. Ober.
            He had only been in Africa long enough to shuck off
            the notions he had acquired about the engineering of
            a west coast colony.                  --Pall Mall
                                                  Mag.
      [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
shuck
    n 1: material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of
         stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
         [syn: chaff, husk, shuck, stalk, straw,
         stubble]
    v 1: remove from the shell; "shuck oysters"
    2: remove the shucks from; "shuck corn"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
19 Moby Thesaurus words for "shuck":
   bark, bran, capsule, case, chaff, corn shuck, cornhusk,
   decorticate, hull, husk, jacket, palea, peel, pod, rind, shell,
   skin, slough, strip