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Husk vs Sheathing - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between husk and sheathing

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 sheathing is something that wraps around or surrounds something, as a sheath encases its blade.

As verbs the difference between husk and sheathing

is that husk is to remove husks from while sheathing is present participle of lang=en.

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 ----

    sheathing

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that wraps around or surrounds something, as a sheath encases its blade.
    • When the sheathing was on it suddenly looked like a real house: you could see where the outer walls would be even if they still needed the siding and trim added.

    Verb

    (head)