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husking
  • present participle of husk.

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More exciting than any football game to Fairmont's visitors was that day's sporting event�the 11th annual National Corn Husking Championship.

From Time Magazine Archive

These rollers, better known as a Husking Roller, were invented by Mr. A. H. Siemen, an Appleton resident.

From Time Magazine Archive

Husking an ear of corn consists of tearing off the husk in which it is wrapped, breaking it off its stalk, tossing it into a wagon.

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Husking bees had been postponed for want of ears to husk.

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Husking it requires a different and particular operation, in a mill made for that purpose.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by Simmonds, P. L.