OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 40802

corncob

/ˈkɔːn.kɒb/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
carozo • coronta • marlo • mazorca • olote (Méx.) • panocha • tusa • zuro
The central cylindrical core of an ear of corn (maize) on which the kernels are attached in rows.
London is like a shelled corncob on the Derby day, and there is not a clerk who could raise the money to hire a saddle with an old hack under it that can sit down on his office-sto…
Six years of persistent research at the Bureau of Chemistry of the Department of Agriculture, has resulted in establishing the fact that a number of interesting and useful by-produ…