Shucker
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Shucker is a noun meaning Someone who shucks oysters, clams, corn (maize), walnuts, etc.
Meaning
Someone who shucks oysters, clams, corn (maize), walnuts, etc.
More Meanings
- (humorous) Someone who shucks or removes something.
- A device that shucks produce, such as a corn shucker.
Example Sentences
Everyone drank gimlets and the hostess hired an oyster shucker to come up from Baltimore with crates and crates of oysters.
“Bill was born near Des Moines, Iowa, and as a boy was knowed as the champion lightweight corn shucker of Hog Bristle County. […]”
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.
Word Forms
- shuckers
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include clammer, clamdigger, quahogger, scutcher, oyster, nosher.
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