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ˈcornfield, corn-field
a. A field in which corn is grown.
1523Fitzherb. Husb. §141 Standynge water in his corne feeldes at the landes endes or sydes. 1638Penkethman Artach. K b, Great Flouds, which destroyed Corne-fields, Pastures, and Beasts. 1717Berkeley Tour in Italy Wks. IV. 537 Corn-fields surrounded with elms and vines. 1883G. Lloyd Ebb & Flow II. 232 Zig-zagging about among hills and cornfields.
b. A field in which maize is grown. U.S.
Quot. 1608 may not refer to a maize-field.
1608J. Smith True Rel. Virginia in Wks. (1884) I. 32 The riuer diuideth in two, the neck a plaine high Corne field. 1634in Cambridge (Mass.) Prop. Rec. (1896) 1 The Constable shall make a Surveyinge of the Houses, backsids, Corne ffeilds,..and other lands. 1772Carroll Papers in Maryland Hist. Mag. XIV. 150 Our Cornfields are in very good order. 1820Western Carolinian (Salisbury, N.C.) 1 Aug., He will find its component parts to consist of corn field peas. 1837J. M. Peck Gaz. Illinois (ed. 2) i. 25 The..squirrels often do mischief in the corn fields. 1872Schele de Vere Americanisms 48 So-called self-made men are to this day fond of boasting that they never received any other education but in an old cornfield school. 1948Chicago Daily News 12 Jan. 1/1 The farmer..coveted his neighbor's wife across the cornfields. |