cornfield

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It was too far away for one of their out-buildings to be afire; but Hiram set off immediately, although he only had slippers on, for the corner of the barnyard fence When he reached this point he saw that one of the fodder stacks in the cornfield was afire.

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  1. noun A field in which corn is grown.

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  • It is almost dark when we appear over the rolled-down cornfield which is to serve as our make-shift landing ground. —  I Flew For The Führer
  • And to-day, if the Pilgrim man and maid whom we joined at the beginning of our reminiscences could gaze out over the harbor, they would see it as full of masts as a cornfield is of stalks. —  The Old Coast Road From Boston to Plymouth
  • They told me that down by the cornfield was a bunch of campers, and I said I'd go down and sell them some specs. —  Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders Among the Kentucky Mountaineers
  • Crow?" Buster Bumblebee asked I don't know of any better place to look than the cornfield," Jasper Jay told him Luckily Buster knew where the cornfield was. —  The Tale of Buster Bumblebee
  • It was too far away for one of their out-buildings to be afire; but Hiram set off immediately, although he only had slippers on, for the corner of the barnyard fence When he reached this point he saw that one of the fodder stacks in the cornfield was afire. —  Hiram the Young Farmer
 

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