The husking is a short process, and is even advantageously delayed till the moment arrives for using the corn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Daniel Boone, the Great Western Hunter and Pioneer] Reference

"husking" ewe, things might have gone differently.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bob, Son of Battle] Reference

Thou hast the wooden vessel used for husking grain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference

Prepare the corn by husking it and removing the silk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 5: Fruit and Fruit Desserts; Canning and Drying; Jelly Making, Preserving and Pickling; Confections; Beverages; the Planning of Meals] Reference

All seem to fill well, also have good husking quality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943] Reference

The hybrids I have grown so far have been self-husking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Seventh Annual Report Wooster, Ohio, September 3, 4, 5, 1946] Reference

They use two pieces of stones only for husking their corn.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference

To the quaint tune of some old psalm, a husking-ballad sung.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems Teachers Ask For Selected by readers of "Normal Instructor-Primary Plans"] Reference

Get it ready for canning by husking it and removing the silk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 5: Fruit and Fruit Desserts; Canning and Drying; Jelly Making, Preserving and Pickling; Confections; Beverages; the Planning of Meals] Reference

See if any of 'em has as big a heap as I do after the husking.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Homestead] Reference

The husking could be greatly facilitated by a very simple machine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference

The customary charge for husking and winnowing a caban of paddy is.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands] Reference

This illustrates the principle of all shelling or husking machines.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer] Reference

The husking at the Bronsons was a very well attended feast, indeed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hiram the Young Farmer] Reference

The husking-bee and the quilting-bee afforded sources of much enjoyment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, January 1886 Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, January, 1886] Reference

His mother was a poor old woman, who earned their living by husking rice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Filipino Popular Tales] Reference

His wife, La Senora, was busily engaged in husking and drying the berries.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference

Asmakuttas are those that use only two pieces of stone for husking their grain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference

A few pointers about husking them: where gloves and an apron, and do it outside.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kurt Michael Friese: Walnut Season Arrives (And a Recipe for Shiitake and Wild Black Walnut "Tartare")] Reference

At husking time husk and weigh the yield from each row or ear of seed separately.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy] Reference

They went home early, however, and Hiram felt somewhat grave after the corn husking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hiram the Young Farmer] Reference

While his father was husking corn in a field, he was seated by a fire reading a novel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular Lectures] Reference

It has a floor over head for receiving the corn from the field; husking and sorting it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy] Reference

The nuts are run through the husker a couple of times to assure a clean job of husking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943] Reference

Its measurement will be the proportion of husk removed by a standard husking operation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association, Report Of The Proceedings At The Tenth Annual Meeting. Battle Creek, Michigan, December 9 and 10, 1919] Reference

His hands were huge and callous, their grip the terror of his mates after a husking bee.    From Wordnik.com.  [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 2, January, 1896] Reference

Dantolukhalas are those that use their teeth for purposes of husking the grain they eat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference

But for this interruption I could have finished husking that row before the dinner-horn blew.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reveries of a Schoolmaster] Reference

The corn-husking begins at eight, and we are to call for Jason Brown and Lucy before we start.    From Wordnik.com.  [Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People] Reference

They do not use a regular husking or cleaning apparatus for cleaning the grain they use as food.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference

And some used only two pieces of stone for husking their grain, and some used their teeth only for that purpose.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference

But Hiram saw that Sister was much disappointed, and he had tried to be kinder to her since that night of the corn husking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hiram the Young Farmer] Reference

As it was, I could draw my pay for husking corn on Saturday night, and begin accumulating salary as a schoolmaster on Monday.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reveries of a Schoolmaster] Reference

The color of the meal is injured when steel knives are used in husking or slicing, but silver or nickel blades do not injure the color.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference