husk
noun
the dry external covering of certain fruits or seeds, especially of an ear of corn.
was husking
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past progressiveof husk.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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He was husking in his own State and in a familiar stand of corn.
From Time Magazine Archive
They had divided the field in halves and Adam was husking one side, Kate the other.
From A Daughter of the Land by Gene Stratton-Porter
We studied while he was husking corn or cutting potatoes for seed, or shelling beans in the Squire's barn.
From New Chronicles of Rebecca by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
There was husking corn and shelling it, there were meats and fish to be salted, some of it dried, for now the inhabitants within and without knew that winter was long and cold.
From A Little Girl in Old Detroit by Amanda Minnie Douglas
I was husking paddi, and Bird liked to look at me.
From Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917 by Carl Lumholtz
