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corn-cob U.S.|ˈkɔːnkɒb|
[cob n.1 11.]
a. The elongated and somewhat woody receptacle to which the grains are attached in the ear of maize.
1787(title) Adventures of Jonathan Corncob,..written by himself. 1796J. Barlow Hasty-Pudding iii, The dry husks rustle, and the corn-cobs crack. 1810J. Lambert Trav. Canada I. viii. 136 They [sc. Canadians] are extravagantly fond of the corn cobs boiled or roasted, and rubbed over with a little butter and salt. 1817–8Cobbett Resid. U.S. (1822) 7 This little stalk, to which the seeds adhere, is called the Corn Cob. 1858O. W. Holmes Aut. Breakf.-t (1865) 14 London is like a shelled corncob on the Derby day. 1881T. Hughes Rugby, Tennessee 58 They remained peacefully among corn-cobs till the danger had passed.
b. attrib. and Comb. , as corn-cob pipe, a tobacco-pipe with the bowl made of the cob of Indian corn; corn-cob shell, a shell made by removing the pith of the cob and filling the hollow with powder.
1801Spirit of Farmer's Museum 236 Jotham, get the great case bottle, Your teeth can pull its corn cob stopple. 1832J. P. Kennedy Swallow B. II. xix. 246 He stood in the group, with his corncob pipe, puffing the smoke from his bolster-lips. 1853Trans. Mich. Agric. Soc. IV. 83 Best corn⁓cob crusher by horse power. 1856Yale Lit. Mag. XXI. 145 (Th.), He was employed in whittling a corn cob bowl into a pipe. 1888in Farmer Americanisms (1889) 170/1 Soon after that disgrace a party of the boys prepared a lot of grenades—corn-cob shells they called them—and determined to storm head quarters. 1889‘C. E. Craddock’ Broomsedge Cove iv. 53 An aroma lingered about its corn-cob stopper. 1911Springfield Weekly Republ. 12 Jan. 1 Speaker Cannon gave Washington a shock Thursday by appearing in one of the Capitol lobbies smoking a corncob pipe. 1960B. Keaton Wonderf. World of Slapstick (1967) 72 His mother, a frail old Southern woman who smoked a corncob pipe, put me to bed.
c. Short for corn-cob pipe.
1892Outing (U.S.) Sept. 441/1, I were settin' on de po'ch yender, smokin' m'ole corncob. 1923Blackw. Mag. Dec. 727/1 Mr. Quigg puffing away at a corn-cob. |