corn-cobn.
/ˈkɔːnkɒb/, U.S. /ˈkɔrnˌkɑb/ U.S.
a. The elongated and somewhat woody receptacle to which the grains are attached in the ear of maize.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > maize > head, cob, ear, or inflorescence
tassel1646
roasting ear1651
nubbin1692
grappe1693
cob1702
corn-cob1787
spike1800
ear leaf1835
maize ear1855
tucket1874
ear bud1901
1787 (title) Adventures of Jonathan Corncob,..written by himself.
1796 J. Barlow Hasty-pudding iii, in N.Y. Mag. Jan. 47 The dry husks rustle, and the corn-cobs crack.
1797 J. Morse Amer. Gazetteer s.v. South Carolina Another tree, which bears an ear like a corn-cob.
1810 J. Lambert Trav. Lower Canada & U.S. 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.
1818 W. Cobbett Year's Resid. U.S.A. i. i. 18 This little stalk, to which the seeds adhere, is called the Corn Cob.
1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table ii. 39 London is like a shelled corn-cob on the Derby day.
1881 T. Hughes Rugby, Tennessee 58 They remained peacefully among corn-cobs till the danger had passed.
b. Short for corn-cob pipe at Compounds.
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1892 Outing Sept. 441/1 I were settin' on de po'ch yender, smokin' m'ole corncob.
1923 Blackwood's Mag. Dec. 727/1 Mr. Quigg puffing away at a corn-cob.
Compounds
attributive and in other combinations, 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.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > articles or materials used in smoking > [noun] > pipe > other types of pipe
calumet1717
pillow pipe1752
meerschaum1799
corn-cob pipe1832
bulldog1885
plague pipe1892
Peterson1906
shell-briar1972
1801 Spirit of Farmers' Museum 236 Jotham, get the great case bottle, Your teeth can pull its corn cob stopple.
1832 J. P. Kennedy Swallow Barn II. xix. 246 He stood in the group, with his corncob pipe, puffing the smoke from his bolster-lips.
1853 Trans. Michigan Agric. Soc. 4 83 Best corn~cob crusher by horse power.
1856 Yale Lit. Mag. 21 145 He was employed in whittling a corn cob bowl into a pipe.
1888 in J. S. 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’ Despot Broomsedge Cove iv. 53 An aroma lingered about its corn-cob stopper.
1911 Springfield (Mass.) Weekly Republican 12 Jan. 1 Speaker Cannon gave Washington a shock Thursday by appearing in one of the Capitol lobbies smoking a corncob pipe.
1960 B. Keaton My Wonderful World of Slapstick iv. 72 His mother, a frail old Southern woman who smoked a corncob pipe, put me to bed.
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