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cornhouse

[ kawrn-hous ]

noun

, New England and South Atlantic States.
, plural corn·hous·es [kawrn, -hou-ziz].
  1. a corncrib.


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The lock he judged to be one of the ordinary cheap ones such as his father always used on his cornhouse and barn doors.

Start to set de cornhouse afire, but my Ma say: 'Please sir, don't burn de cornhouse.

He has to visit the widow Gubbins, who fell down the cornhouse steps the week before, and broke her leg.

Near by is a cornhouse and a small distillery, and the corrals for sheep shearing are not far off.

The place where they used to have the best fun seeing Mammy Tittleback catch mice was in the cornhouse.

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