单词 | cornhusking |
释义 | cornhusking (once / 562825 pages) n WORD FAMILY cornhusking: cornhuskings USAGE EXAMPLESIn the fields, late in the day, afternoon merging into night, a cornhusking bee was in progress on the Brodas plantation. Ann Petry, Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Un...(1955) There had been dances and cornhuskings and candymakings throughout the neighborhood; there had been afternoons of horseshoe pitching and evenings of charades. Irene Hunt, Across Five Aprils(1964) Cornhusking Joining the Big 10 may be boosting University of Nebraska applications — even in the law school. New York Times(Jan 20, 2012) 1n the act of removing the husks from ears of corn Hyper baring, denudation, husking, stripping, uncovering the removal of covering 2n a social gathering for the purpose of husking corn Syn|Hyper husking bee bee a social gathering to carry out some communal task or to hold competitions |
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