English Dictionary

shucker

noun

Someone who shucks oysters, clams, corn (maize), walnuts, etc. / (humorous) Someone who shucks or removes something. / A device that shucks produce, such as a corn shucker.

The shucker skillfully opened the oysters.

意味（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. […]

意味（2）

(humorous) Someone who shucks or removes something.

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.

意味（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.