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(law, obsolete) The act or offence of grubbing up trees and bushes, and thus destroying the thickets or coverts of a forest.
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(intransitive, of turbines and rotor blades) To disintegrate by the blades becoming severed from the axis
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(transitive) To remove the beard from (mussels, clams, seeds, etc.).
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To remove the germ from a cereal grain etc.
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(agriculture) A device that separates the germ from the husk of a cereal grain.
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(transitive) To remove the hull (covering of a seed or fruit) from.
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A machine that removes hulls.
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(transitive) To remove the husk from (a coconut or cereal.
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A machine that removes the husks (from coconuts etc)
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(transitive) To remove seed or seeds from.
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To remove the stalk (from a fruit etc.)
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(US, transitive) To remove the pollen-bearing tassel from (a female maize plant) as part of the hybridization process.
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(transitive) To remove the tusks from (an elephant, a boar, etc.).
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(transitive) To remove the vein-like colon from (shrimp).
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A machine that removes most of the oil from oilseeds to form oil cake.
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To strip the blubber or skin from, as from a whale, seal, etc.
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The sawdust-like byproduct of wood-boring insects like termites, old-house borers or powderpost beetles.
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The removal or inversion of a ring of bark in order to kill or stunt a tree.
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To remove the outer covering of a fruit or seed.
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(transitive) To remove husks from.
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A hard, tough outer layer, particularly on food such as fruit, cheese, etc
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(agriculture) A device used to plant seeds; a seed drill
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(transitive) To remove the shuck from (walnuts, oysters, etc.).
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(transitive) To remove the silk from (corn).
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A person or vessel employed in gathering sponges from the sea.
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A tool used to remove weeds.
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