How To Use husking In A Sentence
- One day while I was husking maize, after my daily devotion, my father's mother came and sat by me.
- No man ever grew up in the agricultural regions of the West, where a house-raising, or even a corn-husking is a matter of common interest and helpfulness, with any other feeling than that of broad-minded, generous independence. On the Death of Garfield
- 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
- Sitting at A, I now began husking, breaking off the husks from each ear in three strokes, thus: With my hand I drew back half the husk; second, I drew back the other half; third, I broke the husk from the cob. Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden
- The test results show that it can work well for high moisture sweet corn husking.
- 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.
- Much of the work of the household is gender-specific, with women working longer hours than men and responsible for the hard work of hauling water and firewood and husking the rice.
- Martin was one of the participants at the hand cornhusking demonstration Thursday at Husker Harvest Days. Grand Island Independent Home RSS
