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husking bee
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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a community gathering where neighbors husked corn and had a party.
Quotations
1832
This kind of work is called a raising Bee, and in the same way assistance is mutually given in beating out the Indian corn from its husks, in what is called a husking Bee.
1884
And at a husking bee we were a power. Five hundred bushels of corn was nothing for us to undress.
1964
Perhaps the husking bee provided most pleasure to the participants.