The difference between Hull and Shuck
When used as nouns, hull means the outer covering of a fruit or seed, whereas shuck means the shell or husk, especially of grains (e.g. corn/maize) or nuts (e.g. walnuts).
When used as verbs, hull means to remove the outer covering of a fruit or seed, whereas shuck means to remove the shuck from (walnuts, oysters, etc.).
check bellow for the other definitions of Hull and Shuck
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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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Shuck as a noun:
The shell or husk, especially of grains (e.g. corn/maize) or nuts (e.g. walnuts).
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Shuck as a noun (slang, African American Vernacular English):
A fraud; a scam.
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Shuck as a noun (slang):
A phony.
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Shuck as a verb (transitive):
To remove the shuck from (walnuts, oysters, etc.).
Examples:
"Shall we shuck walnuts?"
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Shuck as a verb (transitive):
To remove (any outer covering).
Examples:
"I will shuck my clothes and dive naked into the pool."
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Shuck as a verb (transitive, intransitive, slang):
To fool; to hoax.