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Definition of Shuckers
1. shucker [n] - See also: shucker
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shuckers
Literary usage of Shuckers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin of the Department of Labor by United States Dept. of Labor (1901)
"as oyster shuckers. Including the day laborers, 97.25 per cent are engaged in
the oyster ... One local preacher is enumerated among the oyster shuckers. ..."
2. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1896)
"OYSTER shuckers' KERATITIS. IN the Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin for November,
1895, Dr. RL Randolph described a disease which he called "oyster shuckers' ..."
3. Seventy Years in Dixie: Recollections and Sayings of T.W. Caskey and Others by Fletcher Douglas Srygley (1891)
"The rivalry between the two squads of shuckers would grow more ... Corn-shucking
was dusty work, and the shuckers re- ..."
4. Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society Annual Meeting by American Ophthalmological Society (1897)
"In several cases where the shuckers had been truck more than once I found the
old nebulae. The striking point in these cases is the rapidity with which in ..."
5. Report of the Investigation of Oyster Properties of the State by the Board by James Andrew Newlands (1910)
"The shell oysters were conveyed to the shuckers by the gravity system, ...
In these houses the shuckers were uniformly dressed in long white aprons and the ..."
6. Publications of the American Economic Association by Amos Griswold Warner, JSTOR (Organization), American Economic Association (1906)
"If I were to attempt to make a cotton crop in Mississippi with a lot of negro
oyster shuckers gathered along the Maryland and Virginia coasts, failure would ..."
7. Bulletin of the Department of Labor by United States Dept. of Labor (1901)
"as oyster shuckers. Including the day laborers, 97.25 per cent are engaged in
the oyster ... One local preacher is enumerated among the oyster shuckers. ..."
8. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1896)
"OYSTER shuckers' KERATITIS. IN the Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin for November,
1895, Dr. RL Randolph described a disease which he called "oyster shuckers' ..."
9. Seventy Years in Dixie: Recollections and Sayings of T.W. Caskey and Others by Fletcher Douglas Srygley (1891)
"The rivalry between the two squads of shuckers would grow more ... Corn-shucking
was dusty work, and the shuckers re- ..."
10. Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society Annual Meeting by American Ophthalmological Society (1897)
"In several cases where the shuckers had been truck more than once I found the
old nebulae. The striking point in these cases is the rapidity with which in ..."
11. Report of the Investigation of Oyster Properties of the State by the Board by James Andrew Newlands (1910)
"The shell oysters were conveyed to the shuckers by the gravity system, ...
In these houses the shuckers were uniformly dressed in long white aprons and the ..."
12. Publications of the American Economic Association by Amos Griswold Warner, JSTOR (Organization), American Economic Association (1906)
"If I were to attempt to make a cotton crop in Mississippi with a lot of negro
oyster shuckers gathered along the Maryland and Virginia coasts, failure would ..."
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