Recommended Reading: The Grammarphobia Blog

For those of you interested in the vagaries of the English language, I recommend the wonderful Grammarphobia Blog.

My favorite tidbit from their recent posts is a list of what Beth Levin calls "pit verbs," meaning verbs that are identical to nouns and stand for the removal of that noun. The name comes from the fact that "pit" is just such a word - to pit a peach is to remove the pit from it.

The other such words listed there were:

- bone
- core
- gut
- hull
- husk
- louse
- milk
- peel
- pip
- pit
- pod
- pulp
- rind
- scale
- scalp
- seed
- shell
- shuck
- skin
- stem
- string
- tail
- tassel
- top
- weed
- worm
- zest

...to which I would add "dust."

Edit: Also, "tax."