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shucking

[shuhk-ing]

noun

  1. husking.



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My sister and I, along with our four cousins, spent many afternoons throughout the summer with our grandmother shelling bushels of peas and shucking corn.

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A few even claimed that shucking in stores is only acceptable if you're planning on cooking your corn that same day.

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While shucking oysters, son and father discuss what it means to forgive.

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The way the takeover was done - using emergency measures to tweak Swiss law and shucking the bondholder-shareholder pecking order on losses - has unsettled investors.

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The way the takeover was done — using emergency measures to tweak Swiss law and shucking the bondholder-shareholder pecking order on losses — has unsettled investors.

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