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The dry, leafy or stringy exterior of certain vegetables or fruits, which must be removed before eating the meat inside

Example: A coconut has a very thick husk.

Any form of useless, dried-up, and subsequently worthless exterior of something

Example: His attorney was a dried-up husk of a man.

The supporting frame of a run of millstones.

To remove husks from.

An infection in cattle caused by a species of Dictyocaulus or lungworm

To cough, clear one's throat.

To say huskily, to utter in a husky voice.