The shuck hats and foot-mats are so foreign in design that one often wonders how it were possible to utilize the same material in so widely different purposes.
But our girl is progressive, and not a few instances have occurred when one has been informed of the presence of a Tuskegee student in a remote country district, by the inevitable shuck hat prettily designed and worn by an utter stranger.
It was but the work of a moment to slip part of the shuck of a horse-chestnut, with its sharp spines, under the collar, so that when the traces drew upon it the spines would be driven into the poor beast's neck.
He says: "I should a reckoned the difference in rank would a sejested to you that a corn-shuck bed warn't just fitten for me to sleep on.
It ain't no time when he discovers that by cuttin' himse'f a bit on the irons, he can shuck the handcuffs whenever he's disposed.
Dem old shuckbottoms was fine too; dey plaited dem shucks and wound 'em 'round for cheer bottoms and footsmats.
Den I recollects dat dey would have to shuck corn some of de days en wouldn' nobody work in de field dat day.
In de nigger houses, de chimneys mos all fell in, and de chicken houses ev'rywhar wuz shuck down.
Aw de colored peoples wear wha' dey call shuck hat den cause dey been make outer shuck.
It shuckthe water, it shuck the air, an' it shuck the hull we was on.
Several species of borers are found attacking the trunks, the twig girdler severing the tips of twigs, the shuck worm and case-bearer affecting the husk, and the pecan weevil affecting the nuts.
In general, the bigger the nut the easier it is to handle, the easier it is to shuck and crack.
Examples of such insects are the pecan or hickory shuck worm, the walnut husk maggot, and the codling moth.
In severe cases the injury extends through the hull or shuck to the shell and kernels.
These late-infested nuts may be poorly filled because the insect larvae mine the hulls or shucks, severing the conducting tissues that transport food materials from the fruit stem or peduncle through the shuck to the kernel.
Mr. Shuck in 1835, and in September of the same year sailed with her husband, in company with a large number of missionaries, for the East.
In 1841 Mrs. Shuck gave birth to a beautiful little daughter, who was called Henrietta Layton, for her mother, and a family by the latter name who had been exceeding kind to them during all their residence at Macao.
The funeral of Mrs. Shuck was attended from her late home, and she was borne to the grave by the European police corps, who volunteered their services for the occasion.
To complete the work, Mr. Shuckmade great sacrifices and practised great self-denial.
Chapels were erected, assemblies collected, and schools gathered from the Chinese; and while her husband labored among the former, Mrs. Shuck instructed the latter.
The station to which Mrs. Shuck belonged was under the control of the Baptist Missionary Convention.
Mrs. Shuckdescribes the climate as delightful and the situation of the place beautifully romantic.
The vessel in which passage had been engaged for Mr. and Mrs. Shuck was the Louvre, which was to carry out a large delegation of missionaries.
But Steve did n't let on like he noticed Bills at all, and rech and shuck hands with the other boys and ast how they was all a-comin' on.
Why, I shuckmy fist at you an' said I never saw anybody look so much like your Uncle Jonas.
En w'en de Lion shuck his mane, en tuck his seat in de big cheer, den de sesshun begun fer ter commence.
En w'en he got in de big road, he shuck de dew off'n his tail, en made a straight shoot fer Brer Rabbit's house.
Sometime us have de corn huskin' and dere a dollar for de one whatshuck de mos' corn.
At night the men had to shuck corn and the women card and spin.
The next thing he had a holt o' my coat-collar an' shuck me like a tarrier-dog shakes a rat.
He got wexed dat ar minit, und shuck his hed und I knowed den dat de state had flung de fat in de farr, und I said to mysef, Joshaway, yu und ole marser is agwine home wid wun anuder dis werry nite und it cum out lak I spishuned.
They shuck hands till they mighty nigh yanked my arm out'n its socket.
But at that instant the shuck tick rattled noisily at some movement of the sleeping boy.
You can dig up the dirt under the shuck tick with it--which helps astonishingly.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shuck" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bark; bran; capsule; case; chaff; hull; husk; jacket; pare; peel; pod; rind; shell; shuck; skin; slough
