• Corn-cob

    Full definition of corn-cob

    Noun

    corn-cob

    (plural corn-cobs)
    1. Alternative spelling of corncob
      • 1897, Mark Twain, , American Publishing Co., page 539:It had a slender stem several feet high, and from its top stood up a single tongue of flame, an intensely red flower of the size and shape of a small corn-cob.
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