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shucker en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From shuck + -er.

Meanings

1. Someone who shucks oysters, clams, corn (maize), walnuts, etc.
   • Everyone drank gimlets and the hostess hired an oyster shucker to come up from Baltimore with crates and crates of oysters. 1988, Edmund White, chapter 9, in The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, published 1994:
   • “Bill was born near Des Moines, Iowa, and as a boy was knowed as the champion lightweight corn shucker of Hog Bristle County. […]” 1927, Charles M. Russell, “Bill’s Shelby Hotel”, in Trails Plowed Under:
2. (humorous) 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. 1986 April 14, Anastasia Toufexis, “Hey, Are You Rotating?”, in Time:
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. 1983 September 26, Pico Iyer, “A Bumper Crop of Problems”, in Time:

Forms

Deriveds

cornshucker