ABSP: Words - Shelling

Being Doing Feeling > Actions > Shelling

Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.

cornhusking	the removal of the husk from corn.
decorticate	to remove the bark, husk or peel of.
enucleate	to bring or peel out, as a kernel from its enveloping husks or shell.
pod	the fruit, or its shell, in peas, beans, and other leguminous plants (verb) to shell peas
shale	clay rock splitting readily into thin layers along the bedding planes (verb, Shakesp.) to shell or husk
shaley	of or like shale.
sheal	to shell, husk.
sheel	(Shakesp.) to shell, husk.
shiel	(Shakesp.) to shell, husk.
slipe	wool removed from the pelt of a slaughtered sheep; (verb) to peel.
unhusk	to remove the husk from.
unshale	to strip the shale, or husk, from.
unshell	to strip the shell from; to take out of the shell.

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