corn-husking†

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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an affair where neighbors gathered to husk corn and to enjoy social activities.

Quotations

1897

Some of these were raccoon hunting at night with dogs . . . corn husking, house and barn raisings. . . .

1908

. . . It is like going back to chaos and a chapter of Dante's "Inferno" after the pumpkins and peaches and corn huskings of Fernwylde. . . .