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Webster 1913 Edition
Shucker
Shuck′er
,Noun.
One who shucks oysters or clams
Definition 2024
shucker
shucker
English
Noun
shucker (plural shuckers)
- Someone who shucks oysters, clams, corn (maize), walnuts, etc.
- 1927, Charles M. Russell, “Bill’s Shelby Hotel” in Trails Plowed Under,
- “Bill was born near Des Moines, Iowa, and as a boy was knowed as the champion lightweight corn shucker of Hog Bristle County. […] ”
- 1988, Edmund White, The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, 1994, Chapter Nine,
- Everyone drank gimlets and the hostess hired an oyster shucker to come up from Baltimore with crates and crates of oysters.
- 1927, Charles M. Russell, “Bill’s Shelby Hotel” in Trails Plowed Under,
- (humorous) Someone who shucks or removes something.
- 1986, Anastasia Toufexis, “Hey, Are You Rotating?” in Time, 14 April, 1986,
- 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, Anastasia Toufexis, “Hey, Are You Rotating?” in Time, 14 April, 1986,
- A device that shucks produce, such as a corn shucker.