The dry, leafy or stringy exterior of certain vegetables or fruits, which must be removed before eating the meat inside.

Any form of useless, dried-up, and subsequently worthless exterior of something.

The supporting frame of a run of millstones.

An infection in cattle caused by a species of Dictyocaulus or lungworm

(transitive) To remove husks from.

(intransitive) To cough, clear one's throat.

(transitive) To say huskily, to utter in a husky voice.