Such words as _tassel_ and _silk_ were poetically applied to the blossoms; _stalk_, _blade_, and _ear_ were borrowed from other sorts of corn, and the Indian tongues were forced to pay tribute to name the dishes borrowed from the savages.

From them we have _hominy_, _pone_, _supawn_, and _succotash_.

For other nouns words were borrowed from English provincial dialects.

_Shuck_ is one of these.

On the northern belt, shucks are the outer covering of nuts; in the middle and southern regions the word is applied to what in New England is called the husks of the corn.