shucking

[ shuhk-ing ]

noun

1. husking.

Word History and Origins

Origin of shucking¹

shuck ¹ + -ing ¹

Example Sentences

Shucking oysters is a particular skill and a task best approached clear-headed and with no distractions.

From The Daily Beast

He remembered seeing this same Jase Vaughn, now riding unsuspectingly toward the loaded rifle, at a corn shucking once.

From Project Gutenberg

The contest was then begun with much gusto and the party first shucking its allotment declared the winner.

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He began shucking his robe while Chris went out with the police, her voice sharp and continual.

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Shuck′er, one who shucks; Shuck′ing, the act of taking off the shuck: a shucking-bee.

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The first day of the fall in his sixth year he asked his mother to let him go to the next corn-shucking.

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