shucker

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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. […]”
  2. Someone who shucks or removes something. humorous
    — 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.

词形变化

shuckers plural

词汇关系

衍生词
cornshucker

词源

From shuck + -er.
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