corn stack

American  

noun

Delmarva Peninsula.

1. corncrib.

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Example Sentences

I struck a young man the other day—a well-educated man by the look of him—who was spending the afternoon happily with a ferret by a corn stack, killing rats with a club.

From The Protector by Bindloss, Harold

A few minutes after starting we met another of the akhardash, a very good fellow named Kasim, and conversed with him for a few minutes in the shade of a corn stack before proceeding.

From A Kut Prisoner by Bishop, H. C. W.

To look for them will be worse than looking for spiders in a corn stack.

From The Rover Boys at School by Stratemeyer, Edward

I struck a young man the other day—a well-educated man by the looks of him—who was spending the afternoon happily with a ferret by a corn stack, killing rats with a club.

From Vane of the Timberlands by Bindloss, Harold

Just such an accident as folks hev as shoves a burning candle in a corn stack.

From Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp by Fenn, George Manville