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Crossword-Solution: HUSK 4 letters, 88 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Word Word Type Definition
Husk n. The external covering or envelope of certain fruits or seeds;
glume; hull; rind; in the United States, especially applied to the
covering of the ears of maize.
Husk n. The supporting frame of a run of millstones.
Husk v. t. To strip off the external covering or envelope of; as, to
husk Indian corn.

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HUSK anagram HUKS, KUSH, SUKH

We have 88 clues for the answer “HUSK”

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Ear cover 1 answer
Outer coconut layer, e.g. 1 answer
Outer coconut layer 1 answer
OUTER integument of fruits/seeds 1 answer
Outer shell of a seed or grain 1 answer
Maize covering 1 answer
Kernal covering 1 answer
INTEGUMENT of seeds, outer 1 answer
INTEGUMENT of fruits, outer 1 answer
HOOSE 1 answer
FRUITS, outer integument of 1 answer
Outer layer of barley 1 answer
Dry outer covering 1 answer
Dry covering 1 answer
DRY outer integument of fruits/seeds 1 answer
DRY integument of fruits/seeds 1 answer
Covering of a corn ear 1 answer
Covering of a chestnut. 1 answer
Cover for an ear 1 answer
Corn's coat 1 answer
Corn residue 1 answer
Strip, as corn 1 answer
Dry seed covering 1 answer
remove husk 1 answer
dry integument 1 answer
Wrapper for a tamale 1 answer
WORTHLESS shell 1 answer
WORTHLESS outside part of anything (fig.) 1 answer
Tamale wrapper 1 answer
Tamale part 1 answer
Tamal wrapper 1 answer
Corny outfit? 1 answer
Something stripped off for a barbecue 1 answer
SEED, outer integument of 1 answer
REMOVE husk from 1 answer
Prepare for cooking, as corn 1 answer
Prepare corn for eating 1 answer
Part of an ear of corn 1 answer
PERICARP (bot.) 1 answer
Outside envelope. 1 answer
Outside covering. 1 answer
Corn cover 1 answer
Corn coating 1 answer
Corn coat 1 answer
Coat for corn 1 answer
Coat for a chestnut 1 answer
CORN shell 1 answer
Corn peel 1 answer
Ear flaps. 2 answers
Chaff of grain 2 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAEER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with HUSK (5)

But the fruits were very delightful; one, in particular, that seemed to be in season all the time I was there—a floury thing in a three-sided husk—was especially good, and I made it my staple.
The Time Machine H. G. Wells 1992
They had eaten of this marvelous fruit which nature concentrates within the hard shell of the sorapus nut, and having eaten had cast the husk overboard.
The Warlord of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
When fall came she was to husk corn for the neighbours until Christmas, as she had done the year before; but grandmother saved her from this by getting her a place to work with our neighbours, the Harlings.
My Ántonia Willa Cather 1995
Musing on the husk and chaff Gather'd where life's tares are sown, Thus I speak, and force a laugh That is half a sneer and half An involuntary groan, In a stifled tone-- "Rest, old friend! thy day, though rife With its toil, hath ended soon; We have had our share of strife, Tumblers in the mask of life, In the pantomime of noon Clown and pantaloon.
Poems Adam Lindsay Gordon 2008
During the early winter she received two or three more letters of the same kind, each enclosing in its loose husk of rhetoric a smaller kernel of fact.
Bunner Sisters Edith Wharton 2008

Quotes with HUSK (3)

It doth not hurt", whispered a faint voice, "She will take you life and all you are and all you care'st for, and she will leave you with nothing but mist and fog. She'll take your joy. And one day you'll wake and your heart and soul will have gone. A husk you'll be, a wisp you'll be, and a thing no more than a dream on waking, or a memory of something forgotten.
Neil Gaiman Coraline
Of the many forms that silence takes, the most memorable is the dry husk of the cicada.
Jon Davis
He'd seen that the young ones died quickly. He'd heard the staff talk about it. When they were ready they let go. Not like adults. Adults took a long time. It was as if adults had built such a thick, petrified husk around them that this alone gave them the strength, the form to hold on. And by the transient revival that so often came to the dying, adults seemed to find a last little puff of life before the end. They had a term for it here at the hospital -- hui guang fan zhao…
Nicole Mones A Cup of Light
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 70 times in crossword archives (1952–2024).