The difference between Hull and Husk
When used as nouns, hull means the outer covering of a fruit or seed, whereas husk means the dry, leafy or stringy exterior of certain vegetables or fruits, which must be removed before eating the meat inside.
When used as verbs, hull means to remove the outer covering of a fruit or seed, whereas husk means to remove husks from.
check bellow for the other definitions of Hull and Husk
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Hull as a noun:
The outer covering of a fruit or seed
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Hull as a verb:
To remove the outer covering of a fruit or seed.
Examples:
"She sat on the back porch hulling peanuts."
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Hull as a noun:
The body or frame of a vessel, such as a ship or plane.
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Hull as a noun (mathematics, geometry, of a set A):
The smallest set that possesses a particular property (such as convexity) and contains every point of A; slightly more formally, the intersection of all sets which possess the specified property and of which A is a subset.
Examples:
"The orthogonal convex hull of an orthogonal polygon is the smallest orthogonally convex polygon that encloses the original polygon."
"holomorphically convex hull; affine hull; injective hull"
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Hull as a verb (obsolete, intransitive, nautical):
To drift; to be carried by the impetus of wind or water on the ship's hull alone, with sails furled.
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Hull as a verb (transitive):
To hit (a ship) in the hull with cannon fire etc.
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Husk as a noun:
The dry, leafy or stringy exterior of certain vegetables or fruits, which must be removed before eating the meat inside
Examples:
" A coconut has a very thick husk."
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Husk as a noun:
Any form of useless, dried-up, and subsequently worthless exterior of something
Examples:
"His attorney was a dried-up husk of a man."
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Husk as a noun:
The supporting frame of a run of millstones.
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Husk as a verb (transitive):
To remove husks from.
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Husk as a noun:
An infection in cattle caused by a species of Dictyocaulus or lungworm
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Husk as a verb (intransitive):
To cough, clear one's throat.
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Husk as a verb (transitive):
To say huskily, to utter in a husky voice.