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Example sentences for "husked"

Lexicographically close words:
hushed; hushes; hushing; husht; husk; huskers; huskies; huskily; huskiness; husking
  1. Then beer is prepared, rice husked and got ready, and a convenient day fixed for the service.

  2. The staple food is rice, which is husked in the usual way, by being pounded with a long pestle in a wooden mortar, and cooked by the women of the family.

  3. The rice exported from Japan is some of it husked and some of it polished.

  4. The farmer pays his rent not in the polished but in the husked rice.

  5. As a newly married couple crosses the threshold a husked cocoanut is cut in two.

  6. On the day after the wedding the married couple return to their future home with great rejoicing, and on their entering the house a husked cocoanut is cut in two on the threshold.

  7. Tematau and those with him filled the boat with husked coco-nuts, and were sailing homewards in the night when she struck on a reef and tore a great hole in her side.

  8. Just as she was leaving the room to attend to her household duties, the man Tematau came to the door, carrying a string of freshly-husked young drinking coco-nuts.

  9. Some said it was husked between mill-stones, others between rubbers of wood in the form of mill-stones, others of cork.

  10. Corn--Boiled= Put husked corn into boiling water and boil rapidly for 5-15 m.

  11. A; b6(1)] separate the husk from husked grains.

  12. This money is just enough to buy husked rice (or corn).

  13. So the hind sought of one of his comrades sesame to be husked by way of healing the sick man; and, when a measure thereof was given to him, he carried it home to his wife and bade her dress it.

  14. So she steeped it and husked it and spread it out to dry.

  15. And if at first he does not succeed, he will make other trips aloft with the husked nut, dropping it again and again until at last it is shattered and lies open to his claws.

  16. Her eyes were the color of the mio, the rosewood when freshly cut, and her breasts like the milk-cocoanut husked for drinking.

  17. Husking quality is important but it was impossible to properly award points for this characteristic in a nut contest, because the nuts are husked before being sent in.

  18. A heartnut tree owned by Mr. Sylvestor Kratz of Jordan Station, Ontario, produced nearly seven bushels of husked nuts one season and Mr. J.

  19. He used his baskets in which to carry his husked ears from the field to his cave and in which to store it when shelled.

  20. At the end of the season he gathered or husked his corn and after it was thoroughly dry he shelled it from the cob with his hands.

  21. He gathered the ripe corn in the big man's garden patch and husked it and stored it in the shed which was built against the cabin.

  22. What sayest thou to the husked sesame-seed?

  23. Then all this realm's Iron-husked flower of war, which overwhelms With rust and havoc, shall explode and bloom An asphodel of peace with joy's perfume.

  24. Delightful memories are associated with this sunny spot and with a pond which appeared as if by some conjury, on the very field where I had husked the down-row so painfully in November.

  25. I plowed, threshed, and husked corn, and when at last December came, I had acquired money enough to carry me on my way.

  26. With a great lumber wagon at my side I had husked corn from every acre of it, and now I was leaving it with no intention of returning.

  27. As young men they had threshed or cradled or husked corn with my father, whom they still called by his first name.

  28. Every little while she paused at the stove, where, the hay twists having long since given out, she fed the fire from a heaping basket of yellow, husked corn.

  29. The husked corn filled the cribs to bursting, the wheat lay in yellow heaps on the granary floor, and the hay, stacked high, stood along the north side of the low, sod barn in a sheltering crescent.

  30. What sayest thou to the husked sesame seed?

  31. Gram and rice, husked or unhusked, are the grains usually parched.

  32. The rice is husked and then parched in an earthen pan, and subsequently bruised with a mallet in a wooden mortar.

  33. Afterwards she cut down dozens of young green nuts for drinking, husked them to save space, and slung them together in bunches with strips of their own fibre.

  34. She husked and opened a number of large cocoanuts, and removed the insides.

  35. She kept herself driven about the house, and when she could find no more to do, took Little Poll in her arms and went out in the fields to Adam, where she found the baby a safe place, and then cut and husked corn as usual.

  36. Kate husked away in high good humour, but she quit an hour early to be on time to go to Agatha.

  37. Before the husked corn was removed from the barn, I had conveyed several bushels of the ears into the husks, near my bed, and concealed them for my winter's stock.

  38. In the morning the people again returned to their work, and husked corn until the evening.

  39. The husked grain is then commonly winnowed in a sieve, and the unhusked rice (antah) which remains has to be separated from the husked rice and pounded over again.

  40. This consists of a tray full of unhusked rice surmounted by a tray full of husked rice and a roughly-husked cocoa-nut (niyor gubalan) which rests upon the latter.

  41. She had spun her twenty-four cuts of yarn, in a day, and husked her fifty shocks of heavy corn.

  42. Then there was a race among the huskers for the fence, the girls promising that he whose row was first husked out, should sit at the head of the table, and be called King of the Corn-field.

  43. I have not had much success selling them either husked or unhusked, "too hard to crack.

  44. The nut is large, being about 21 per pound, with a very thick husk, on which account it should be husked as soon as gathered, as the husk will turn dark and stain the kernel.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "husked" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.