U.S. = CORN-HUSK.
1843. Thorpe, Big Bear Arkansas, 21 (Bartl.). A wildcat skin, pulled off hull, stuffed with corn-shucks, for a pillow.
1884. J. G. Bourke, Snake-Dance of Moquis, iv. 39. Cedar sprigs encircled ankles and waists, and corn-shucks tied up their hair.
So Corn-shucking = CORN-HUSKING.
1852. [W. T. Thompson], Major Jones’s Courtship, 41 (Bartl.). All … laughin, as if they’d been to a cornshuckin more’n to a meetin-house.
1884. Sat. Rev., 7 June, 740/2. I have seen the negro at work, and I have … attended his corn-shuckings.
