1800 A. Addison 156 The prisoner and the deceased were at a husking frolic.
1848 W. Irving (rev. ed.) vii. ii. 388 Now were instituted quilting bees and husking bees and other rural assemblages.
1850 J. G. Whittier 13 The master of the village school..a husking-ballad sung.
1854 J. R. Lowell Jrnl. Italy in (1890) I. 186 The..husking-bee, where the lads and lassies sit round laughingly busy under the swinging lantern.