shucker

noun 3

Definitions

noun

1

Someone who shucks oysters, clams, corn (maize), walnuts, etc.

“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.

2

Someone who shucks or removes something.

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.

3

A device that shucks produce, such as a corn shucker.

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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