'Shucking' definitions:

Definition of 'Shucking'

From: GCIDE
  • 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.]

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