cornshucker

plural cornshuckers

1. agricultureA farmer or farm worker engaged in shucking corn (maize). A role played periodically, not a vocation.

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   [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."

   1895, Charlotte McIlvain Moore, “Old Kentucky homes”, in Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly, volume 39, number 64, page 64

   Synonyms: cornhusker

2. agricultureA machine or machine component that shucks corn.

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   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, […]

   1977, Northampton County Bar Association, “Cases Determined in the Courts of Northampton County in the State of Pennsylvania”, in Northampton County Reporter, volume 42, page 55

   Synonyms: cornhusker