To shake.n. A husk or pod: used especially of the epicarp of hickory-nuts and walnuts, the prickly involucre of chestnuts, etc., also, in England, of the pods of peas, etc., and, in some parts of the United States, of the husks of maize.n. The shell of the oyster.n. A case or covering, as that of the larva of a caddis-fly.To remove the husk, pod, or shell from: in the United States said especially of the husking of corn or the shelling of oysters.To take; strip: with off.n. A shock; a stook.n. The devil.A call to pigs.