shucking

American  

[shuhk-ing] / ˈʃʌk ɪŋ /

noun

1. husking.

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Etymology

Origin of shucking

shuck ¹ + -ing ¹

Example Sentences

"There's nothing wrong with shucking it at the store if you're going to use it that same day, I reckon," said user u/GingerMau.

From Salon • Aug. 23, 2023

While shucking oysters, son and father discuss what it means to forgive.

From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2023

Back in the late 1990s, he didn’t think he’d be able to pass on the business that his grandfather started as a one-room shucking house in 1948.

From Washington Post • Apr. 21, 2023

At one point in time, Green says, nearby Bluffton, S.C.,, had as many as five oyster shucking houses.

From Scientific American • Apr. 6, 2023

But Teenie kept her busy from dawn to dusk doing what Polly considered to be slave labor—peeling potatoes, shelling peas, shucking corn, and carrying heavy stacks of kindling for the fire.

From "Copper Sun" by Sharon M. Draper