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- noun Plural form of
corn-cob .
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Examples
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Lounging on our cushions like Romans, we nibbled the corn-cobs Gena had roasted over the fire and munched fresh Star Crimson apples.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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While we examined the walnut nursery, Gena had been busy vegetable poaching in a nearby field and reappeared back at the lodge with an armful of corn-cobs for dinner.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Lounging on our cushions like Romans, we nibbled the corn-cobs Gena had roasted over the fire and munched fresh Star Crimson apples.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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While we examined the walnut nursery, Gena had been busy vegetable poaching in a nearby field and reappeared back at the lodge with an armful of corn-cobs for dinner.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Ok, so it may be gross, but Melissa G.'s submission I can't make myself call it a turkey looks like it surrounded by gnawed on corn-cobs, some of them have just been dyed....
Creations That Might Possibly Be Representations of Turkeys Jen 2008
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Fifty-three cups of tea graced the table, which was likewise ornamented with six boiled legs of mutton, numerous dishes of splendid potatoes, and corn-cobs, squash, and pumpkin-pie, in true colonial abundance.
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The maize is the staple of the country; you see it in the fields; you have corn-cobs for breakfast; corncobs, mush, and hominy for dinner; johnny-cake for tea; and the very bread contains a third part of
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There were eight boiled legs of mutton, nearly raw; six antiquated fowls, whose legs were of the consistence of guitar-strings; baked pork with “onion fixings,” the meat swimming in grease; and for vegetables, yams, corn-cobs, and squash.
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The brandy bottles, most singular to relate, had also fallen a prey to the voracious and irresistible destroyers the white ants — and, by some unaccountable means, they had imbibed the potent Hennessy, and replaced the corks with corn-cobs.
How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004
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Finn the Red-Handed had stolen a skillet and a quantity of half-cured leaf tobacco, and had also brought a few corn-cobs to make pipes with.
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