corncrib

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Noun

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corncrib (plural corncribs)

  1. Alternative form of corn crib
    • 2007 July 10, Verlyn Klinkenborg, “John Szarkowski”, in New York Times[1]:
      It is the picture of a farmer and his son standing against the backdrop of an empty wooden corncrib.
    • 1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa., New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC:
      Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.