1855 5 76 The annual corn-shucking season has its own peculiar class of songs, never heard but upon that festival.
a1860 (Bartl.) The young people were all..laughin', as if they'd been to a corn-shuckin', more'n to a meetin' house.
1884 7 June 740/2 I have seen the negro at work, and I have..attended his corn-shuckings.