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husking bee Hist. 
a community gathering where neighbors husked corn and had a party.
See also: bee corn-husking bee husking frolic
- 1832 This kind of work is called a raising Bee, and in the same way assistance is mutually given in beating out the Indian corn from its husks, in what is called a husking Bee.
- 1884 And at a husking bee we were a power. Five hundred bushels of corn was nothing for us to undress.
- 1964 Perhaps the husking bee provided most pleasure to the participants.
- 1832 This kind of work is called a raising Bee, and in the same way assistance is mutually given in beating out the Indian corn from its husks, in what is called a husking Bee.