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husking†
Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a community gathering where neighbors husked corn and had a party.
See: husking bee
Quotations
1905
The men, women, boys and girls in the neighborhood who had been invited to the "husking" would assemble about six or seven o'clock, and spend the evening in stripping the husks off the ears of corn.