corn
noun
a tall cereal plant, Zea mays, cultivated in many varieties, having a jointed, solid stem and bearing the grain, seeds, or kernels on large ears.
were corning
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past progressiveof corn.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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But Pablo had heard rumors, which greatly disquieted him, that such pledges and surveyed lines as these were corning to be held as of no value, not binding on purchasers of grants.
From Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson
