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Definition of Shucking
1. the act of one that shucks [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shucking
Literary usage of Shucking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopedia of American Literature: Embracing Personal and Critical Notices by Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck (1856)
"( But you must hear of the corn-shucking. The one at which I was present was
given on purpose that I might witness the humors of the Carolina negroes. ..."
2. Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings; the Folk-lore of the Old Plantation by Joel Chandler Harris (1880)
"CORN-shucking SONG. OH, de fus news you know de day'll be a breakin'— (Hey 0 !
Hi 0 ! Up'n down de Bango !*) An' de fier be a burnin' en' de ash-cake a ..."
3. History of Domestic and Foreign Commerce of the United States by Emory Richard Johnson, Thurman William Van Metre, Grover Gerhardt Huebner, David Scott Hanchet (1915)
"shucking and canning of oysters, 189. Prosperity of the oyster business after
1850, 189. Oyster planting and culture, 190. The oyster industry in the South ..."
4. Marion Harland's Autobiography: The Story of a Long Life by Marion Harland (1910)
"... OF CHANGES—A CORN-shucking—NEGRO TOPICAL SONG MY mother's love for Richmond
was but second to that she felt for husband and children. ..."
5. Our Country: East (1898)
"This was the time for the corn-shucking. Large wagons were driven into the field
of shocks, each of which usually contained the product of sixteen hills, ..."
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