corn-housen.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > storage or preservation of crops > [noun] > granary
corn-housec1000
meal-houseOE
garnerc1175
grangec1384
girnel1452
graner1531
garnery1552
granary1570
grainel1608
corn-crib1716
golah1762
grain-elevator1852
c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 185 Granarium, cornhus.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Chron. xxxii. 28 Ezechias..made him..corne houses for the increace of corne.
2. U.S. = corn-crib n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > storage or preservation of crops > [noun] > barn > types of
tithe barn1543
tithing barn1659
corn-house1699
Dutch barn1742
staddle barn1794
bank barn1804
staddle granary1816
Pennsylvania barn1823
grain-barn1844
1699 J. Dickinson Gods Protecting Provid. 82 The people had..large Cropps of Corn, as We could tell by their Corn-houses.
1745 Virginia Gaz. 19 Dec. Two Dwelling-houses, Milk-house, Corn-house.
1773 Carroll Papers in Maryland Hist. Mag. 15 281 They may goe to the Island to get the scantlings for the Corn House, Sibthorp shall Carry with him the dimensions of my new Corn House.
1796–1806 B. Hawkins Lett. 54 Saying..he had not entered 3 of the Indian houses... He went to their doors..or sat under their corn house.
1836 Southern Literary Messenger 2 157 That unlimited control which the said horse exercises over the corn in his corn-house.
1845 W. G. Simms Wigwam & Cabin 2nd Ser. 135 Considering that the Corn-House aint oberfull.
1957 Steven Post (Charlottesville, Va.) Feb. Slave cabin, corn house, kennel, hen house.
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