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Husk vs Hask - What's the difference?

husk | hask |

As nouns the difference between husk and hask

is that husk is the dry, leafy or stringy exterior of certain vegetables or fruits, which must be removed before eating the meat inside while hask is a basket made of rushes or flags, as for carrying fish.

As a verb husk

is to remove husks from.

husk

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) . More at (l), (l). Alternate etymology derives husk from Low German .)

Noun

(wikipedia husk) (en noun)
  • The dry, leafy or stringy exterior of certain vegetables or fruits, which must be removed before eating the meat inside
    • A coconut has a very thick husk .
  • Any form of useless, dried-up, and subsequently worthless exterior of something
    • His attorney was a dried-up husk of a man.
  • The supporting frame of a run of millstones.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To remove husks from.

    • Etymology 2

    Partly imitative, partly from Etymology 1, above, influenced by (husky).

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To say huskily, to utter in a husky voice.
  • * The French captain did not immediately respond; he looked at his men with a miserable expression [...]; still he hesitated, drooped, and finally husked , "Je me rends," with a look still more wretched. — (Naomi Novik), "His Majesty's Dragon"

    • See also

    * husky

    References

    The Australian Pocket Oxford Dictionary , 2nd Ed., Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1978 ----

    hask

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A basket made of rushes or flags, as for carrying fish.
    • (Spenser)
    (Webster 1913)