hulling
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of hulling
Example Sentences
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This process, known as hulling, takes place at Strawberry Centre.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
Built in 1882, the two-story metalworking factory was the birthplace of boilers that heated the booming city, coffee hulling machines shipped to plantations in Brazil, and engines that propelled the drilling of the Panama Canal.
From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2022
Hulling strawberries with a knife is tedious; hulling strawberries with this tiny tool is weirdly satisfying.
From Time ● Dec. 20, 2016
As Sara Pitzer, the author of the small-scale grain grower’s bible “Homegrown Whole Grains,” writes, “even gardeners most lyrical about the joys of growing rice admit that hulling is nothing but pure chore.”
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 10, 2014
Late that night we were still at work, cleaning the fish, hulling the rice, separating the grain from the husk.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
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