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He was husking in his own State and in a familiar stand of corn.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Douglas, Amanda Minnie

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 Lumholtz, Carl

They had divided the field in halves and Adam was husking one side, Kate the other.

From A Daughter of the Land by Stratton-Porter, Gene

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 Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith