Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An ear of maize or Indian corn in the green and milky state, and fit for roasting.
Examples
“But I'd sooner have a roasting-ear and stay at home and cook.”
“Soon, thereafter, the green corn or roasting-ear came into season, and I heard no more of the scurvy.”
“I never allowed him to run with packs, but generally used him in treeing coon, which pestered the cornfields during roasting-ear season and in the fall.”
“The young ones'd be flying by roasting-ear time -- and in fall the sloughs was black with ducks and geese.”
“They bore the prohibition well while it affected only themselves, but the trial was too great when it came to denying their horses; and men whose discipline kept faith with my guards during the roasting-ear period now fell from grace.”
Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army — Complete
“-- Who shall lead the dance at the joyous feast of the early roasting-ear?”
Eoneguski, or, the Cherokee Chief: A Tale of Past Wars. Vol. II.
“A few days more and I must follow my ancestors to that country where there is no more age nor sickness; -- whose streams are clearer than the drops of dew; -- whose fruits are more luscious than the melon or peach; -- whose valleys rejoice at the same moment, in the sweet roasting-ear and the fully ripe corn; -- and over whose hills the uncounted game is forever bounding.”
Eoneguski, or, the Cherokee Chief: A Tale of Past Wars. Vol. II.
“Gideon found no difficulty in disposing of his roasting-ear as quickly as the best Indian among”
Eoneguski, or, the Cherokee Chief: A Tale of Past Wars. Vol. II.
“Gideon did as he was directed, and, not without some surprise, perceived that the corn was already in that state commonly called "roasting-ear," while the most”
Eoneguski, or, the Cherokee Chief: A Tale of Past Wars. Vol. II.
“Just last week we went out and brought in a mess of fresh corn and had a roasting-ear banquet.”
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Open List: The World of Corn
Corn-related words and phrases. This versatile crop is so important to cultures and economies - from most basic indigenous foodstuff and animal feed to source of biopolymer and biofuel.
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Ear Ear!
Ear words and phrases. A companion piece to b-see--the-eyes-have-it-b and the-nose-knows.
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