Hulling

In the dry method, the husks are removed either by hand (threshing and pounding in a mortar, on the smaller plantations) or by specially constructed machinery, known as hulling machines. ❋ Unknown (1909)

The last step in the preparation process is called hulling or peeling, both words accurately describing the purpose of the operation. ❋ Unknown (1909)

But once she was in the kitchen, even working with Mizuho on something as simple as hulling strawberries reminded her of the distance between herself and everyone else. ❋ Lisa Abend (2011)

Before and after, he worked as a mobile home hulling foreman, oil-field roughneck, horse trainer, auto body shop manager, bar bouncer and "some other things that hurt my head to try to remember." ❋ Unknown (2008)

That would change if the news spread that Harvesters had started hulling ghouls, raiding their bodies for every salvageable part, leaving only the skin husk behind. ❋ Kevin J. Anderson (2010)

When you have finished hulling the strawberries, Ellen will help carry the bowls to the tables. ❋ Posie Graeme-Evans (2010)

Once harvested, grains had to be threshed and winnowed. 106 Beyond hulling, they were then pounded and ground. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It was late in the year to be harvesting, but we filled several sacks with acorns, and then sat by the fire, discarding worm-eaten ones, hulling good ones, and pounding the kernels with stones to make a coarse meal. ❋ Sarah Micklem (2009)

The organic farm always has some demo on the weekend - walnut hulling, wool carding, ice cream making, etc. ❋ Unknown (2008)

One time they were showing us popcorn - hulling it on the cob, popping it on the outdoor woodstove, feeding us the results. ❋ Unknown (2008)

However, this has very little to do with farming and hulling grain and much more to do with highly evolved rats. ❋ Aaron M. Wilson (2007)

By good fortune, she met there with a Gentleman of Cathalogna, whose name was Signior Enchararcho, who came on land from his Ship, which lay hulling there about Albagia, to refresh himselfe at a pleasant Spring. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Being thus resolved, he prevailed with divers young Gentlemen his friends, making them of his faction, and secretly prepared a Shippe, furnished with all things for a Naval fight, setting sodainly forth to Sea, and hulling abroad in those parts by which the vessell should passe, that must convey Iphigenia to Rhodes to her husband. ❋ Unknown (2004)

They steep the freshly harvested grain in water, boil or steam it, and then dry it again before hulling and milling. ❋ Harold McGee (2004)

Then comes the various processes of the removal of the pulp, first by machinery, finally by the fermentation of the still adhering slimy residuum; then the drying and saving by exposure to the sun on trays or on tarpaulins until all moisture is expelled; and the hulling which disintegrates the parchment from the twin berries; then winnowing, and finally the polishing. ❋ Unknown (2003)