corncrib
See also: corn crib
English
Noun
corncrib (plural corncribs)
- Alternative form of corn crib.
- 1942, Augusta F. Rodstrom, quotee, Rodstrom v. Strum, 302 MICH 609 (1942). State of Michigan in the Supreme Court. Appeal to the Supreme Court From the Circuit Court for the County of Jackson in Chancery. Hon. John Simpson, Circuit Judge[1], pages 69-70:
- We fixed the corncrib, remodeled the inside of the barn and put in a furnace. We put in a Delco and a new roof on the house. The roof we put on at our own expense, also the Delco and the furnace. During the time that we were out there we spent about $5,000 of our savings that we had accumulated in Chicago. We have used all our savings and our real estate bonds we lost in the crash of 1929. We farmed the property and bought horses, we had a plow and he [her late husband] plowed the land. He put in wheat, corn and oats.
- 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.
- 2007 July 10, Verlyn Klinkenborg, “John Szarkowski”, in New York Times[2]:
- It is the picture of a farmer and his son standing against the backdrop of an empty wooden corncrib.