Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not husked; having the husk on.
- adjective Having the husk removed; without husk.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
unhusk . - adjective Without a
husk .
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Examples
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And there were ducks also, and ducks and blackbirds feasted to fatness on the ripe rice half unhusked by the sun.
Chapter 21 2010
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Like Ibn Battuta, Ma Huan carefully listed the foodstuffs available in the markets: Husked and unhusked rice, beans, cereals, barley, wheat, sesame and all kinds of vegetables….
Archive 2008-01-01 Jan 2008
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Earlier in the week, Indonesia raised the price it pays farmers for unhusked rice by 10%, and for finished rice by 7.5%.
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A Dutch official was sent with twenty soldiers to tell the inhabitants of villages to the south "that henceforth (as a sign that we are their protector) each family would have to deliver to the company ten bundles of rice paddy [unhusked rice] each year."
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That next spring, my mother found two unhusked nuts in the bottom of one of those last sacks of pecans.
MOM The Daily Growler 2006
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Secrecy is enjoined by the cynical axiom, “If you have rice, hide it under the unhusked grain.”
The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004
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For delicious corn on the cob, cut off the silk and loose leaves, place the unhusked corn in a 325-degree oven, and bake for 10 minutes.
THE TANTE MARIE’S COOKING SCHOOL COOKBOOK MARY RISLEY 2003
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For delicious corn on the cob, cut off the silk and loose leaves, place the unhusked corn in a 325-degree oven, and bake for 10 minutes.
THE TANTE MARIE’S COOKING SCHOOL COOKBOOK MARY RISLEY 2003
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For delicious corn on the cob, cut off the silk and loose leaves, place the unhusked corn in a 325-degree oven, and bake for 10 minutes.
THE TANTE MARIE’S COOKING SCHOOL COOKBOOK MARY RISLEY 2003
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Cob maize, either husked or unhusked, is often dried in narrow cribs with open wall construction to allow natural ventilation through the cobs.
Chapter 5 1984
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