ˈcorn-ground arch.
A piece of land used for growing corn; corn-land.
| 1577–87 Holinshed Chron. III. 823/1 The king..lodged within 3 miles of the citie in a corne ground up the river. 1719 De Foe Crusoe xi. (1840) I. 180 Two pieces of corn-ground. 1727 Swift Gulliver iii. iv. 203 Vineyards, corn-grounds, and meadows. 1886 Z. F. Smith Hist. Kentucky 367 Uncle Ben..plowed the corn-ground. 1954 M. Beresford Lost Villages vii. 246 Sheer excellence of corn-ground. |