cornhusker
Removes maize coverings
A cornhusker is a person or machine that removes the husks from ears of corn.
Before mechanization, cornhusking was labor-intensive work done by hand, often as a communal activity.
The term is most associated with Nebraska, whose residents are called Cornhuskers, and whose state university athletic teams bear the name.
The old cornhusker could strip an ear in seconds.
Maize ear's central cylinder
- kernelsSeeds within husks
- silksLustrous woven garments
- strippingRemoving outer layers
- peelingComing off in strips
gloves · calluses · dexterity · ear · tassel · pith · chaff · bushel
Merge, or harvesting machine
Cinnamon-flavored gum brand
- OmahaLargest Nebraska city
- LincolnMidwestern state capital
- Memorial StadiumVenue named to honor
- BlackshirtsFascist paramilitary forces
Big Ten · Midwest · Platte · football · volleyball · College World Series · Nebraskan
Post-summer cooling period
- cropCultivated agricultural plants
- yieldProduce or relinquish
- gatheringCollection of people meeting
- bushelDry volume unit
field · stalks · fodder · silage · seasonal · fieldwork · bounty · October
Agricultural worker outdoors
- laborerPhysical task performer
- farmhandAgricultural employee
- pickerOne who gathers
- harvesterCrop-collecting machine
migrant worker · seasonal worker · cropper · sharecropper · thresher · homesteader · sodbuster · pioneer
cob
Maize ear's central cylinder
peeling · gloves · calluses · dexterity · ear · tassel · pith · chaff · bushel
combine
Merge, or harvesting machine
Big Red
Cinnamon-flavored gum brand
- OmahaLargest Nebraska city
- LincolnMidwestern state capital
- Memorial StadiumVenue named to honor
Blackshirts · Big Ten · Midwest · Platte · football · volleyball · College World Series · Nebraskan
autumn
Post-summer cooling period
bushel · field · stalks · fodder · silage · seasonal · fieldwork · bounty · October · first frost
fieldhand
Agricultural worker outdoors
harvester · migrant worker · seasonal worker · cropper · sharecropper · thresher · homesteader · sodbuster · pioneer · settler
cornhuskercorn planter
Machine that sows kernels
planter · sower · seed planter · tiller · harvester
- cornhusk dollsFigures made from maize leaves