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shucking

/shuhk-ing/US // ˈʃʌk ɪŋ //

剥壳,去壳,剥皮,洗牌

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : husking.

Examples

  • Shucking oysters is a particular skill and a task best approached clear-headed and with no distractions.

  • He remembered seeing this same Jase Vaughn, now riding unsuspectingly toward the loaded rifle, at a corn shucking once.

  • The contest was then begun with much gusto and the party first shucking its allotment declared the winner.

  • He began shucking his robe while Chris went out with the police, her voice sharp and continual.

  • Shuck′er, one who shucks; Shuck′ing, the act of taking off the shuck: a shucking-bee.

  • The first day of the fall in his sixth year he asked his mother to let him go to the next corn-shucking.