Word Meanings - DECORTICATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of stripping off the bark, rind, hull, or outer coat.

Related words: (words related to DECORTICATION)

• OUTER
  Being on the outside; external; farthest or farther from the interior, from a given station, or from any space or position regarded as a center or starting place; -- opposed to inner; as, the outer wall; the outer court or gate; the outer stump
• STRIPPING
  The last milk drawn from a cow at a milking. (more info) 1. The act of one who strips. The mutual bows and courtesies . . . are remants of the original prostrations and strippings of the captive. H. Spencer. Never were cows that required
• OUTERLY
  1. Utterly; entirely. Chaucer. 2. Toward the outside. Grew.
• STRIPPER
  One who, or that which, strips; specifically, a machine for stripping cards.
• OUTERMOST
  Being on the extreme external part; farthest outward; as, the outermost row. Boyle.
• STRIPPET
  A small stream. "A little brook or strippet." Holinshed.
• SHOUTER
  One who shouts.
• SOUTER
  A shoemaker; a cobbler. Chaucer. There is no work better than another to please God: . . . to wash dishes, to be a souter, or an apostle, -- all is one. Tyndale.
• FLOUTER
  One who flouts; a mocker.
• PLOUTER
  To wade or move about with splashing; to dabble; also, to potter; trifle; idle. I did not want to plowter about any more. Kipling.
• TOUTER
  One who seeks customers, as for an inn, a public conveyance, shops, and the like: hence, an obtrusive candidate for office. The prey of ring droppers, . . . duffers, touters, or any of those bloodless sharpers who are, perhaps, better known to the
• SOUTERLY
  Of or pertaining to a cobbler or cobblers; like a cobbler; hence, vulgar; low.
• POUTER
  A variety of the domestic pigeon remarkable for the extent to which it is able to dilate its throat and breast. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, pouts. 2. Etym:
• CLOUTERLY
  Clumsy; awkward. Rough-hewn, cloutery verses. E. Phillips.
• ACCOUTER; ACCOUTRE
  To furnish with dress, or equipments, esp. those for military service; to equip; to attire; to array. Bot accoutered like young men. Shak. For this, in rags accoutered are they seen. Dryden. Accoutered with his burden and his staff. Wordsworth.
• SOUTERRAIN
  A grotto or cavern under ground. Arbuthnot.
• COME-OUTER
  One who comes out or withdraws from a religious or other organization; a radical reformer.
• ACCOUTERMENTS; ACCOUTREMENTS
  Dress; trappings; equipment; specifically, the devices and equipments worn by soldiers. How gay with all the accouterments of war! (more info) earlier also accoustrement, earlier also accoustrement. See
• SPOUTER
  One who, or that which, spouts.
• FOUTER
  A despicable fellow. Brockett.
• ROUTER
  A plane made like a spokeshave, for working the inside edges of circular sashes. A plane with a hooked tool protruding far below the sole, for smoothing the bottom of a cavity.