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sod corn Western N. Amer.
[f. sod n.1 + corn n.1]
a. Corn or maize planted in ploughed up grassland.
b. Whisky made from sod corn. In full, sod-corn whisky.
1835P. Shirreff Tour xxiv. 248 Indian corn is dropped into every third furrow..and covered with the next cut turf. This crop receives no farther cultivation of any kind, is termed sod corn, and said to yield fifty bushels per acre. 1838Bytown (Ottawa) Gaz. 19 Sept. 1/3 The sod corn does not make up more than half a crop, and is..stacked for fodder stock. 1857E. F. Beadle Diary 2 Aug. (1923) 73 Found the family enjoying themselves over their ‘Sod corn whiskey’. 1878[see bare-footed a. c]. 1913W. Cather O Pioneers! 27 John Bergson says to his boys, ‘Try to break a little more land each year; sod corn is good for fodder.’ 1927K. Eubank Horse & Buggy Days 94 They..ate their dinners,..munching cheese,..which helped along on its onward course by a tumbler or so of sod corn, made in a moonshine still especially for the occasion. 1940L. I. Wilder Long Winter iii. 29 He cut and shocked the sod corn. |