Meaning of Shucker | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Someone who shucks oysters, clams, corn (maize), walnuts, etc.
2. Someone who shucks or removes something.
   humorous
3. A device that shucks produce, such as a corn shucker.

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Examples

““Bill was born near Des Moines, Iowa, and as a boy was knowed as the champion lightweight corn shucker of Hog Bristle County. […]””

“Everyone drank gimlets and the hostess hired an oyster shucker to come⟳ up from Baltimore with crates and crates of oysters.”

“The Kroger supermarket chain […] agreed to weigh⟳ out dieters as well as their vegetables. Some 12,000 hopeful pound shuckers herded through the chain’s groceries during the first weekend.”

“Friends with powerful connections helped him get⟳ a corn shucker; he knows of 80 other farmers who are on the waiting list for those machines in a region that is to receive⟳ only four during the next two years.”

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