单词 | hard corn |
释义 | > as lemmashard corn hard corn n. (also †corn hard) (a) any of various crops (including cereals and beans) that have a hard grain or are winter hardy, esp. wheat and rye (now historical and rare); (b) (originally and chiefly U.S.) a type of maize having particularly hard kernels; cf. flint corn n. at flint n. Compounds 3. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > rye and wheat mixed > plants producing hard corna1399 blend corn?1523 numcorn1570 triticale1952 a1399 in W. G. Benham Oath Bk. Colchester (1907) 10 (MED) Of alle maner cornys hard that comth to the toun, a pynte of a bussel; and for malt and ote a pynte be hepe. 1468 Maldon (Essex) Liber B. f. 14 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Godstow Nunnery (1905) i. 356 (MED) Hard corn..that is, of whete, rye, barley, pesyn, and benes. a1475 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Godstow Nunnery (1905) i. 356 The said Iamys resceived of her ij acris I-sowe of hard corne [L. duro blado]. 1578 in F. Collins Wills & Admin. Knaresborough Court Rolls (1902) I. 135 Hard corne threshed and unwindowed. 1646 in J. W. Clay Yorkshire Royalist Composition Papers (1893) I. 94 350 stooks hardecorn, 49 stooks barley. 1726 J. Laurence New Syst. Agric. i. iv. 83 Wheat, Barley, Beans, or other hard Corn. 1846 N. Carolina Farmer June 15 Our Northern hard corn is oily, and what is termed Pop Corn, owes its peculiar property to its oily nature. 1973 I. Kershaw Bolton Priory ii. 42 The 1317 harvest produced a mixed bag of yields of hard corn. 2003 S. Nottingham Eat Your Genes (ed. 2) xii. 134 Flint or hard corn, with large floury kernels, is turned into animal feeds and used in a wide range of processed foods. < as lemmas |
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