The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shuck \Shuck\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shucked; p. pr. & vb. n. Shucking.]
To deprive of the shucks or husks; as, to shuck walnuts, Indian corn, oysters, etc.
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To remove or take off (shucks); hence, to discard; to lay aside; -- usually with off. [Colloq.]
``Shucking'' his coronet, after he had imbibed several draughts of fire water.
--F. A. Ober.He had only been in Africa long enough to shuck off the notions he had acquired about the engineering of a west coast colony.
--Pall Mall Mag.
Wiktionary
n. An event at which something is shucked. vb. (present participle of shuck English)
Usage examples of "shucking".
Them redskins set there shucking a good while, to fling a forty-acre shell pile over their shoulders.
Just right for shucking down to your swan trunks and laying up in the canvas hammock in the backyard with a good book.
Behind her, Longarm was shucking his shirt and his gun belt and trying his best to get his boots off while he was still walking.
The fingers gripping the pen are dark as stirrup leathers, stained from shucking walnuts out of their stinking, pulpy husks, and the nail of the forefinger is ragged as a hackerd and wants filing.