corncrib
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of corncrib
Example Sentences
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One time, she hid passengers in a corncrib, and another time in the secret bottom of a brick wagon.
From Washington Post • Mar. 3, 2017
An old corncrib stands against the blue sky in rural Will County, testament to the decades of harvest on this Wilton Township farm.
From Chicago Tribune • Sep. 11, 2014
Last week the guerrillas were acting more like rats in a corncrib than like rats in a trap.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bending into it, he made his way past the garage, past the combined corncrib and granary, toward the white barn on whose galvanized cupola a riderless horse swung nervously to the east.
From Time Magazine Archive
I tuck my shirt in my jeans and, combing my hair with a teasel-weed head I found near the corncrib, I walk up the steps to the house.
From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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