desilk
English
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editdesilk (third-person singular simple present desilks, present participle desilking, simple past and past participle desilked)
- (transitive) To remove the silk from (corn).
- 2013, Lynetra T. Griffin, From Whence We Came, page 17:
- While we shucked and silked the corn, we talked, sang old nursery rhymes […]