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noun

Husking n.

The act or process of stripping off husks, as from Indian corn.

A meeting of neighbors or friends to assist in husking maize; called also husking bee. (U.S.) "A red ear in the husking."

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Etymology of 'Husking'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Husking" Quotes from Famous Books

... she succeeded in slipping it from the glove which she left a prisoner in his eager clasp. "There! Yo' can keep the glove, co'nnle," she said, breathing quickly. "Sit down! This is not the place nor the weather for husking frolics! Well!—yo' want to know WHY yo' mustn't speak to me in that way. Be still, ...

— Sally Dows and Other Stories • Bret Harte

... sorting, are sold much cheaper. The objection to the Carolina rice then, being, that it crumbles in certain forms of preparation, and this supposed to be the effect of a less perfect machine for husking, I flattered myself I should be able to learn what might be the machine of Piedmont, when I should arrive at Marseilles, to which place I was to go in the course of a tour through the seaport towns of this country. ...

— Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson - Volume I • Thomas Jefferson

... from his attack on the luminary is not performed. This consists in shouting, in striking gongs, but, above all, in striking their stampers against the sides of the wooden mortars which are used by the villagers in husking their corn." [301] That the Indians of the continent regard the phenomena in question with more than ordinary interest is evinced by their resorting in large numbers to Benares, the ancient seat ...

— Moon Lore • Timothy Harley

Words linked to "Husking" : baring, cornhusking, disforestation, removal, husking bee, husk, stripping, denudation