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cornhusk

[ US /ˈkɔɹnˌhəsk/ ]
NOUN
  1. the husk of an ear of corn

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  • The conception of cornhusking as a sport rather than a chore sprang from the fertile brain of Henry Agard Wallace.
  • -- after cornhusking was all husked and the oats thrashing all thrashed and the rutabaga digging all dug, I took eight dollars and a half in my inside vest pocket and I went to the hardware store. Rootabaga Stories
  • Delicate cornhusk wrappings and innovative flavor combinations are the calling cards of this Southern California company.
  • Beverly invited us to the table and served us a delicious succotash made from hominy and a couple kinds of beans; bowls of neon-yellow cold squash; somiviki (fine blue-corn flour mixed with water and sugar then wrapped in cornhusk); fry bread, yellow watermelon; and Hopi tea (brewed from greenthread or thelesperma filifolium). Rachel Dickinson: Into Hopi Country
  • 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.
  • Broadcasts of games are picked up in almost every store and gas station from Omaha to the western border; farmers sometimes neglect their cornhusking in the afternoon to hear the game over the radio.
  • Martin was one of the participants at the hand cornhusking demonstration Thursday at Husker Harvest Days. Grand Island Independent Home RSS
  • Jesus Estrada, that is, the cornhusk wunderkind from Mexico. Una LaMarche: Project Runway Season 7 Premiere Recap
  • Previous to this affair my father, from all I can learn, had been a good-humored and light-hearted man, the ringleader in all fun at cornhuskings and Christmas buffoonery.
  • Pick up the two long sides of the cornhusk and unite them. Marcela Valladolid: Día de Los Muertos
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