transitive. To free from the shell or husk; to remove, take off (the shell or husk) from a nut, bean, fruit, etc.; to decorticate (hemp). ? Obsolete.

transitive. To deprive of the husk.

transitive. To divest of husk or shell; †to clean (a fish) of spines.

transitive. To extract from, to strip of, the shell. (Chiefly figurative.)

To unhusk.

transitive. To remove the shell, husk, etc. of.

(transitive) to shell.

transitive. To remove the shucks from (corn, etc.).