cornhusking
AmericanEtymology
Origin of cornhusking
An Americanism dating back to 1780–90; corn 1 + husk + -ing 1
Example Sentences
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On the Henry Keppy farm near Davenport, 125,000 farmers and their families gathered to see how the job was done by the best of them at the annual national cornhusking contest.
From Time Magazine Archive
Welch, special counsel to the Army during the Army-McCarthy hearings, proceeded to debunk himself, to the delight of his cornhusking listeners, on grounds that "I am not actually real."
From Time Magazine Archive
The conception of cornhusking as a sport rather than a chore sprang from the fertile brain of Henry Agard Wallace.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the Missouri Valley, Nebraska's thunderous, cornhusking eleven pulled itself together after a dismaying first Quarter, sent Rhodes and Bloodgood ripping through for a belated harvest.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the fields, late in the day, afternoon merging into night, a cornhusking bee was in progress on the Brodas plantation.
From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry
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