hulling
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of hulling
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The courtyard is unkempt, and a rotting wheat hulling machine lies in a corner.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 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
They traveled to Peru and Brazil to learn about processing machinery for other commodities, and attempted to build their own quinoa equipment based on a barley hulling machine.
From Salon ● Apr. 24, 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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