Husking is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for HUSKING in dictionary:

VERB:
• remove the husk or husks from
• say something in a husky voice
NOUN:
• a festive gathering to assist in husking maize
• the dry outer covering of some fruits or seeds
• a dry or rough outer layer, especially when it is empty of its contents
• bronchitis in cattle, sheep, or pigs caused by parasitic infestation, typically marked by a husky cough.
• huskiness
• The act or process of stripping off husks, as from Indian corn.
• A meeting of neighbors or friends to assist in husking maize; -- called also
• the removal of covering
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to remove the husk (the outer covering) from
• a gathering of families to husk corn

Words related to HUSKING

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Words that contain HUSKING

huskings16 unhusking17 cornhusking21 cornhuskings22

How to use HUSKING in a sentence

• Some time after this, I saw the same dejected, heart-broken creature obliged to wait on the other hands, who were husking corn.
• In the fall of the preceding year Jones had called in his neighbors and their slaves to a corn husking and had sent Allen a message asking him to send help.
• There, at some distance, they saw the group of workers, picking and husking the yellow corn, the farm wagon standing by.
• While his father was husking corn in a field, he was seated by a fire reading a novel.
• She had a lot of her school friends at the husking, and at first the neighborhood boys and girls were bashful in the company of the city girls.
• They went home early, however, and Hiram felt somewhat grave after the corn husking.
• But when he bumped up against the Owners of the Big Touring Cars he was just as much at home as a One-armed Man at a Husking Bee.
• Its measurement will be the proportion of husk removed by a standard husking operation.
• On the frontier a cooeperative spirit manifested itself frequently in mutual helpfulness, in house raising bees, husking bees, threshing bees, and other similar gatherings.
• All the women were busy husking corn which was hung to dry on great racks about the house.
• The work of husking paddy is performed by the women.
• His wife, La Senora, was busily engaged in husking and drying the berries.
• Husking it requires a different and particular operation, in a mill made for that purpose.
• In husking it, it is, for the want of proper machinery, much broken, and, from carelessness in drying, subject to decay from the attack of insects and worms.
• Machinery must be employed for husking the grain, and some degree of kiln drying will be necessary to ensure its preservation in a long voyage.
• 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.
• The husking could be greatly facilitated by a very simple machine.

Similar words containing HUSK without suffix ing

husk11 husks12 husky15 husked14 husker13 unhusk13 huskers14 huskier14 huskies14 huskily17 unhusks14 cornhusk17 huskiest15 huskings16 husklike19 khuskhus22 unhusked16 cornhusks18 huskiness16 unhusking17 cornhusker19 khuskhuses24 cornhuskers20 cornhusking21 huskinesses18 cornhuskings22

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