shucking
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of shucking
Example Sentences
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A few even claimed that shucking in stores is only acceptable if you're planning on cooking your corn that same day.
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
She grew up listening to the work songs of the black women shucking oysters at the J. S. Darling processing plant that wafted up to the pedestrians on the Queen Street Bridge above.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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