How To Use Husking In A Sentence
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It is nearly impossible to specify a rigid format for string bands prior to the onset of the recording industry, perhaps because ‘bands’ were usually informal groups thrown together to play for dances, cornhuskings, auctions, etc.
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Other qualities, such as husking and cracking, size, and quality of kernel, are reported to be the same as in the north except that Stabler leads in cracking quality, with Thomas a rather poor second, owing, perhaps, to a shell too well filled for cracking without shattering the kernels.
Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943
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For almost a century, the Kansas fight song has boasted about husking corn and listening to the Cornhuskers '"wail.
Fight Song Slight: Nebraska's Move Strikes Sour Note With Kansas's Lyrics
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When asked why, at 82, he still likes to compete in hand cornhusking, he said, "It's fun.
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Then, back in 1992, there was a hand cornhusking contest in West Point.
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At 75 years old, Janzen said last year was the first time he ever entered a hand cornhusking contest.
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Nebraska Cornhuskers (original, but people husking corn is not very exciting)
College Mascots: Inspiring to Insipid | Heretical Ideas Magazine
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As I observed, these bonds were strongly encouraged through an unspoken ethic of cooperative assistance, which nurtured in women an almost reflex willingness to "help each other" (kupfunana), especially with time-consuming jobs such as husking corn, shelling peanuts and beans, and sorting through greens for cooking.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
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husking" ewe, things might have gone differently.
Bob, Son of Battle
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Steadfast, uncomplicated in their allegiances, they were foursquare on the side of the American experience as it revealed itself in corn-husking competitions and Fourth of July parades and Thanksgiving preparations.
A Woman’s Place
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I have been thinking of home very much today; wondering if you were all well and whether you have finished cornhusking.
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They are also responsible for the family vegetable and fruit gardens and for threshing, husking, and milling the grain.
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Primitive athletic games and commonplace talk, enlivened by frontier jests and stories, formed the sum of social intercourse when half a dozen or a score of settlers of various ages came together at a house-raising or corn-husking, or when mere chance brought them at the same time to the post-office or the country store.
A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln
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They must hurry to complete their chores early, as by late afternoon they will journey three miles by foot to attend a cornhusking and dance in their neighbors’ new barn.
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They are also responsible for the family vegetable and fruit gardens and for threshing, husking, and milling the grain.
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He had his cornhusking to do, and he wanted to get all the fall jobs finished before cold weather.
Half-Past Seven Stories
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He had his cornhusking to do, and he wanted to get all the fall jobs finished before cold weather.
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Of course, cabin-building, cornhusking, and quilting parties provided ample opportunities for the dissemination of strictly "local" news.
The Fair Play Settlers of the West Branch Valley, 1769-1784 A Study of Frontier Ethnography
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From the looks of it, this state cornhusking champion hasn't lost a step when it comes to picking corn by hand.
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Martin was one of the participants at the hand cornhusking demonstration Thursday at Husker Harvest Days.
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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
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The conception of cornhusking as a sport rather than a chore sprang from the fertile brain of Henry Agard Wallace.
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-- 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
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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
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The test results show that it can work well for high moisture sweet corn husking.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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One day while I was husking maize, after my daily devotion, my father's mother came and sat by me.
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No man ever grew up in the agricultural regions of the West, where a house-raising, or even a corn-husking, is matter of common interest and helpfulness, with any other feeling than that of broad-minded, generous independence.
Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail
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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.
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The husking is a short process, and is even advantageously delayed till the moment arrives for using the corn.
Life of Daniel Boone, the Great Western Hunter and Pioneer
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During the 1780s, community cornhuskings, barn raisings, logrollings, and quilting bees symbolized the overall cooperation among rural New Englanders.
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The stripping of the corn gives rise among some people, to what they call a husking-bee, which, like all the other bees, is one of Yankee origin, and is not now so frequently adopted among the more independent or better class of settlers.
The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America
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Meeting a 5-kg quota requires husking about 4,800 nuts.
Joe Amon: National Cashew Day: More Than Nuts
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Winter is coming, and Charlotte's days are filled with cornhusking and candle dipping and helping Mama mind baby Mary.
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Despite rain and muddy field conditions, the hand cornhusking demonstration went on as planned.
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