单词	cornhusking
释义	cornhusking /ˈkôrnˌhəskiNG / noun 1The removal of husks from ears of corn.He had his cornhusking to do, and he wanted to get all the fall jobs finished before cold weather.... The conception of cornhusking as a sport rather than a chore sprang from the fertile brain of Henry Agard Wallace. Winter is coming, and Charlotte's days are filled with cornhusking and candle dipping and helping Mama mind baby Mary. 1.1The husking of corn by several people as a social event. Also called husking bee.Its large rooms were fashioned not just to accommodate weddings, funerals, prayer meetings, cornhuskings, and the like, but to provide shelter during storms and Indian attacks.... During the 1780s, community cornhuskings, barn raisings, logrollings, and quilting bees symbolized the overall cooperation among rural New Englanders. They must hurry to complete their chores early, as by late afternoon they will journey three miles by foot to attend a cornhusking and dance in their neighbors’ new barn. Derivatives cornhusker noun
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