dehusks
Strips outer covering
Dehusks is the third-person singular form of dehusk, meaning to remove the husk from grain, seeds, or nuts.
The husk is the dry outer covering—corn, rice, and coconuts are commonly dehusked before processing or consumption.
The machine dehusks rice at a rate of two tons per hour.
Extracting grain from stalks
- winnowingSeparating grain from chaff
- decorticatingRemoving outer covering
- shellingSustained artillery attack
- millingProcessing grain mechanically
pounding · grinding · sifting · cleaning · separating · stripping · removing · processing
Take something away
- stripNarrow elongated piece
- peelOuter fruit layer
- shellHard outer covering
- shuckProtective outer covering
expose · extract · separate · bare · uncover · reveal · shed · discard
threshing
Extracting grain from stalks
- winnowingSeparating grain from chaff
- decorticatingRemoving outer covering
- shellingSustained artillery attack
milling · pounding · grinding · sifting · cleaning · separating · stripping · removing · processing · hulling
remove
Take something away
shuck · expose · extract · separate · bare · uncover · reveal · shed · discard · clean
combine
Merge, or harvesting machine
thresher · winnower · huller · sheller · machine · grinder · sieve · fan · screen · blower
rice
Staple cereal grain
corn · sorghum · millet · spelt · rye · buckwheat · quinoa · amaranth · teff · emmer