hucks

Among my hamlet Californians it is not unusual to find beds in use stuffed with the "hucks" of oats, _i. e._ the chaff.

The Life of the Fields Richard Jefferies 1867

Then the younger Mr. Sturges hucks off an 80-footer and breaks his back his father says he was paddling again in two months.

When Death Is Merely a Paddle Stroke Away Michael J. Ybarra 2011

Book two is SIDDARTHA by Hesse; protagonist sits by the river and learns about life by watching hucks go by.

MIND MELD: Speculative Fiction Books That Should Be Assigned in School 2009

The Mad Monk hucks a sickle at The Eagle's noble noggin and bops him in the head.

The Eagle and Buddy the Daredevil Boy! Brian Hughes 2008

It's been a godforsaken roller coaster, one that pivots and reverberates and makes you throw up and at the end, hucks you into a still, silent black hole, one where you must find your own light.

blog: September 2007 2007

It's been a godforsaken roller coaster, one that pivots and reverberates and makes you throw up and at the end, hucks you into a still, silent black hole, one where you must find your own light.

blog: Year in Review 2007

Basically, super-strong Colossus uses unbreakable Wolverine as a projectile weapon and hucks him at bad guys.

Archive 2006-04-01 David Campbell 2006

The soft white mist came thicker around me, as the evening fell; and the peat ricks here and there, and the furze-hucks of the summer-time, were all out of shape in the twist of it.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

You had the communist Filipinos, or what we called them hucks -- was the slang term for them when I was there.

CNN Transcript Jan 14, 2002 2002

"You see, they just take a turn with their tails round a branch, draws their legs up close, and cuddles them with their long arms round 'em, and then they looks just like the hucks of a cocoa-nut."

Rob Harlow's Adventures A Story of the Grand Chaco George Manville Fenn 1870