Husking

- Husking - drying - storage on the cob - shelling as required;

Chapter 5 1984

Husking - shelling - drying - storage as shelled grain;

Chapter 5 1984

"To-morrow at two o'clock they'll be in Husking Valley."

Jack Wright and His Electric Stage; or, Leagued Against the James Boys

Husking quality is important but it was impossible to properly award points for this characteristic in a nut contest, because the nuts are husked before being sent in.

Northern Nut Growers Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-First Annual Meeting Cedar Rapids, Iowa, September 17, 18, and 19, 1930

Husking qualities are quite good for all varieties named except Winkler and, in some places, Rush.

Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943

"Husking corn, Miss, with Henry Pollock, down on the bottom-land."

Hiram the Young Farmer Burbank L. Todd

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

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. P. L. Simmonds

Husking and logging and quilting bees were common, and in the autumn there were bees for candle-dipping, when the family supply of candles would be made for

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5 Charles Herbert Sylvester

But when he bumped up against the Owners of the Big Touring Cars he was just as much at home as a One-armed Man at a Husking Bee.

Knocking the Neighbors George Ade 1905

Husking was the last of the fall work and the last day of husking found

A Spoil of Office A Story of the Modern West Hamlin Garland 1900