Word Meanings - SHELLING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Groats; hulled oats. Simmonds.

Related words: (words related to SHELLING)

• HULLED
  Deprived of the hulls. Hulled corn, kernels of maize prepared for food by removing the hulls.
• HULLER
  One who, or that which, hulls; especially, an agricultural machine for removing the hulls from grain; a hulling machine.
• HULLABALOO
  A confused noise; uproar; tumult. Thackeray.
• HULLO
  See HOLLO
• HULLY
  Having or containing hulls.
• HULL
  The frame or body of a vessel, exclusive of her masts, yards, sails, and rigging. Deep in their hulls our deadly bullets light. Dryden. Hull down, said of a ship so distant that her hull is concealed by the convexity of the sea. (more
• GROATS
  Dried grain, as oats or wheat, hulled and broken or crushed; in high milling, cracked fragments of wheat larger than grits. Embden groats, crushed oats.
• AHULL
  With the sails furled, and the helm lashed alee; -- applied to ships in a storm. See Hull, n.