单词 | husking party |
释义 | > as lemmashusking party attributive, as husking-ballad, husking-bee (see bee n.1), husking party; husking-glove n., husking-peg n., husking-pin n. articles used in husking Indian corn. ΚΠ 1800 A. Addison Rep. Cases Pennsylvania 156 The prisoner and the deceased were at a husking frolic. 1848 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. (rev. ed.) vii. ii. 388 Now were instituted quilting bees and husking bees and other rural assemblages. 1850 J. G. Whittier Huskers 13 The master of the village school..a husking-ballad sung. 1854 J. R. Lowell Jrnl. Italy in Wks. (1890) I. 186 The..husking-bee, where the lads and lassies sit round laughingly busy under the swinging lantern. < as lemmas |
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