shucker

名詞

ユーモラス文体

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.

日本語の意味

牡蠣、二枚貝、トウモロコシ、くるみなどの殻や皮を剥く人 / （ユーモラスに）何かを剥ぎ取る、または取り除く人 / 作物（例：トウモロコシ）を剥ぐための道具

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The shucker worked through the night to prepare oysters for the morning market.

朝の市場に出す牡蠣を用意するため、貝の殻を剥く人は夜通し働いた。

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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. […]

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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.

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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.

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shuckers （ plural ）