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cornhusking

kawrnhuh sking

  • n  a social gathering for the purpose of husking corn
  • n  the act of removing the husks from ears of corn

  • On the Henry Keppy farm near Davenport, 125,000 farmers and their families gathered to see how the job was done by the best of them at the annual national cornhusking contest.
  • In the Missouri Valley, Nebraska's thunderous, cornhusking eleven pulled itself together after a dismaying first Quarter, sent Rhodes and Bloodgood ripping through for a .
  • Competitive cornhusking has its intricacies.
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  • Hand cornhusking skills never forgotten
    CENTRAL CITY — It was more than 80 years ago when Wayne Cheney of Bennet learned how to pick corn out on the family farm. All the cornhusking then was done by hand with horses pulling the wagon full o
    Oct. 7, 2013 - Kearney Hub
  • Sunday, October 6, 2013 11:47 pm
    CENTRAL CITY — It was more than 80 years ago when Wayne Cheney of Bennet learned how to pick corn out on the family farm. All the cornhusking then was done by hand with horses pulling the wagon full of the harvested crop.
    Oct. 7, 2013 - Grand Island Independent

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