shucker (shuker)

[ Estimating the average amount made by the shuckers at $6 a week, or $192 for the season, it is seen that there are six hundred and forty men steadily employed for nearly eight months of the year in opening oysters for local consumption in Baltimore. Fisheries of U. S. , V. ii. 553. shucking (shuk'ing), n. [Verbal n. of shuck2 , v.] 1. The act of freeing from shucks or husks. [Provincial.] Lads and la es mingle At the shucking of the maize. Bon Gaultier Ballads , Lay of Mr. Colt, ii. 2. A husking-bee; a husking. [Local, U. S.] Let me have some of your regular plantation tunes that you used to sing at corn- shuckings . Musical Record , No. 344, p. 8.