释义 |
corn-picker in British Englishnounmainly US and Canadian a machine for removing ears of maize from the standing stalks, often also equipped to separate the corn from the husk and shell corn picker in American Englishnouna machine for picking the ears of corn from standing stalks and removing the husks Derived forms corn picking noun Word origin [1940–45, Amer.]This word is first recorded in the period 1940–45. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Rh factor, airlift, black box, redline, sealant |