HUSKING

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

The act or process of stripping off husks, as from Indian corn.

2.
n.

A meeting of neighbors or friends to assist in husking maize; -- called also husking bee. [U.S.] "A red ear in the husking." Longfellow.


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