shucking
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of shucking
Example Sentences
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Hog Island’s Pro Shuckers Kit includes everything you need: a wood-handled Olympia oyster knife, a pair of shucking gloves, hot sauce, Hogwash mignonette, and 36 gorgeous oysters.
From Salon • Dec. 4, 2025
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
It is a warm winter day, as warm as a spring day in England, and around the fort, men are outside, working on everything from repairing wattle and daub walls to shucking corn.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
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