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Definition of Husking
1. Noun. The removal of covering.
Generic synonyms: Remotion, Removal
Specialized synonyms: Deforestation, Disforestation, Cornhusking
Derivative terms: Denude, Husk, Strip
Definition of Husking
1. n. The act or process of stripping off husks, as from Indian corn.
Definition of Husking
1. Verb. (present participle of husk) ¹
2. Noun. A meeting of neighbours or friends to assist in husking maize. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Husking
1. a gathering of families to husk corn [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Husking
Literary usage of Husking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"This entertainment was the winding up of a corn husking frolic, when all doubtless
were right merry with good whisky.—NY Daily Whig, cited by Buckingham, ..."
2. Vocational Arithmetic: With Lessons in Spelling, Letter Writing and Business by Harry Dunham Vincent (1914)
"Corn husking What is corn husking? What other name is given to corn? What use is
made of corn stalks? State the object of shredding stalks. ..."
3. Vocational Arithmetic: With Lessons in Spelling, Letter Writing and Business by Harry Dunham Vincent (1914)
"Corn husking What is corn husking? What other name is given to corn? What use is
made of corn stalks? State the object of shredding stalks. ..."
4. Granite State Magazine edited by George Waldo Browne (1906)
"husking BEE in the days now grown gray in S memory was an annual event among the
farmers i4 °f tne Granite State that generally lasted in the anticipation, ..."
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