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(agriculture) A farmer or farm worker engaged in shucking corn (maize). A role played periodically, not a vocation..
[John Herr] was a man of powerful physique, six feet two inches in height, muscular and brawny, and noted in the settlement for his physical prowess, and enjoyed the reputation of being the best cornshucker and rifle shot in the neighborhood. A blacksmith by trade, John Herr was a fair type of Longfellow's hero of the world-renowned poem "The Village Blacksmith."
Nicholas Romanishan, Plaintiff vs. International Harvester Co., and Clark Vough, Individually and trading as Vough's Repair Shop and/or Vough & Sons, Defendants. 68 Ill. App. 2d 70, 215 N.E.2d 465, a farmer was injured when he reached into an operating cornshucker to remove jammed ears of corn. The Illinois court held that the question of whether the lack of a safety screen which would have prevented the farmer from reaching into the machine constituted a "defective condition unreasonably dangerous to the user" was for the jury. This rationale was specifically rejected by our Supreme Court in Bartkewich vs. Billinger, 432 Pa. 351, […]
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Cornshucker means (agriculture) A farmer or farm worker engaged in shucking corn (maize). A role played periodically, not a vocation..
Common synonyms include cornhusker.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[John Herr] was a man of powerful physique, six feet two inches in height, muscular and brawny, and noted in the settlement for his physical prowess, and enjoyed the reputation of being the best cornshucker and rifle shot in the neighborhood. A blacksmith by trade, John Herr was a fair type of Longfellow's hero of the world-renowned poem "The Village Blacksmith."
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