winter cornn.
/ˌwɪntə ˈkɔːn/, U.S. /ˌwɪn(t)ər ˈkɔrn/ A cereal crop, esp. wheat, that is sown in winter, or that is sown in autumn and remains in the ground through the winter.Recorded earliest in compounds.Cf. winter wheat n. at winter n.1 Compounds 3a(b).
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > crop or crops > [noun] > grain crop > winter crop
winter corn1472
winter wheat1577
winter pridea1722
1472 in L. F. Salzman Building in Eng. (1992) 225 Paid for iiijxx threfe of wynter-corne stra to ye said lath, vj s. viij d.
?1481 M. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 664 Weche absentyng of the tenauntes is to them a greet hurt and los for lak of sedyng of ther londes wyth ther wynter corn.
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. vv If þu sowe it with wynter corne, as whete or rye.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 25v The Winter Corne when it is sowed before Winter, appeareth aboue the ground somtimes within a seuennight after.
1608 A. Willet Hexapla in Exodum 113 Our wheate and rie, which wee call winter corne.
1652 W. Blith Eng. Improver Improved To Husbandman sig. e3 The earlier thou sowest, the thinner thou mayest sow thy winter corne.
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 60 These Lands are very subject to worms which destroys both the Corn and the Grass very much, especially the Winter-corn.
1764 Museum Rusticum IV. 7 If it is to be winter corn, one ploughing more, which is the third only, makes it in fine order for the seed.
1812 Trans. Soc. Encouragem. Arts, Manuf., & Commerce 30 79 The winter corn was blighted so much as to be almost unfit for use.
1853 Times 19 Oct. 7/2 The fine weather during the last few days has been highly favourable to the sowing of winter corn.
1932 A. Bell Cherry Tree (1985) xvi. 212 There was only the winter corn green in the fields; most of the meadows were still rusty with last summer's dead bents.
1973 J. Seymour & S. Seymour Self-sufficiency x. 124 The ‘root break’, that comes after the winter corn, is the one that gets the heavy dressings of farmyard manure.
2014 Farmers Weekly (Nexis) 19 Sept. Historically it seems our farm favours spring corn over winter corn.
Compounds
General attributive and objective.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > crop or crops > [adjective] > summer or winter crop
summera1398
wintera1398
winter corn1472
1472 [see main sense].
c1475 Mankind (1969) l. 54 A wynter corn-threscher.
1611 in G. A. Carthew Hund. Launditch (1879) iii. 26 In the tyme of wyntercorne harvest.
1771 A. Young Farmer's Tour E. Eng. II. xi. 20 They being to break their stubbles for a fallow soon after winter corn sowing.
1901 Amer. Anthropologist 3 790/2 The Prussian Slav custom of hanging the skin of a sacrificed and ceremonially consumed goat upon a high pole during the winter-corn sowing.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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