corn stack

noun

, Delmarva Peninsula.

Huskers around the corn-stack, workmen in the field, master and apprentice in the shop, passed the brown jug from lip to lip.

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

The flames immediately ceased to go under the bottom of the corn-stack, and stood up vertical.

It is stacked up in piles like cord-wood, and happy is that household whose corn-stack is large at the beginning of a hard winter.

I had not in all this time seen what we in England call a corn-stack, nor a dung-hill.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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