hulls (noun)

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• cottonseed hulls — noun plural : the outer covering of cottonseeds used as a roughage for feeding cattle …   Useful english dictionary

• catamaran — noun Etymology: Tamil kaṭṭumaram, from kaṭṭu to tie + maram tree, wood Date: 1673 a vessel (as a sailboat) with twin hulls and usually a deck or superstructure connecting the hulls …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• huller — noun One who, or that which, hulls; especially, an agricultural machine for removing the hulls from grain; a hulling machine …   Wiktionary

• brown rice — noun unpolished rice retaining the yellowish brown outer layer • Hypernyms: ↑rice * * * noun : rice removed from the hulls but not polished and retaining most of the bran layers, endosperm, and germ * * * rice from which the bran layers and germs …   Useful english dictionary

• lye hominy — noun hominy prepared by bleaching in lye • Hypernyms: ↑hominy * * * noun : hominy prepared from kernals of grain that have been soaked in lye to remove the hulls …   Useful english dictionary

• barnacle — noun Etymology: Middle English barnakille, alteration of bernake, bernekke Date: 15th century 1. barnacle goose 2. [from a popular belief that the goose grew from the crustacean] any of numerous marine crustaceans (subclass Cirripedia) with… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• cotton gin — noun Date: 1796 a machine that separates the seeds, hulls, and foreign material from cotton …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• hominy — noun Etymology: Virginia Algonquian homen, literally, that treated (in the way specified) Date: 1629 kernels of corn that have been soaked in a caustic solution (as of lye) and then washed to remove the hulls …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• hulled corn — noun Date: 1788 whole grain corn from which the hulls have been removed by soaking or boiling in lye water …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• multihull — noun Date: 1960 a vessel (as a catamaran or trimaran) with multiple side by side hulls compare monohull • multihulled adjective …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• trimaran — noun Etymology: tri + catamaran Date: 1949 a fast pleasure sailboat with three hulls side by side …   New Collegiate Dictionary