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  • corn row
    See GUINEA CORN ROW.
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  • corn husk
    n. 1. [US dial. South idem ADD] a corn cob. (Eleu.) 2. a kind of liquor: 1966 Get him half a pint of
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  • corn fish
    [OED corn to preserve with salt]. n. fish that have been dried and salted: 1963 Dis corned fish. Peoples on Crooked Island likes
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  • corner-boy
    [US Black, one who "hangs out" on the corner (Roberts); DHS, a loafer (Anglo-Irish)] n. 1. a boy selling newspapers on a
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  • corner
    /kohna/ n. side street: What the corner name? (Nassau). cf. THROUGH THE CORNER (Nassau)
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  • corn
    /kohn/ v. 1. [cf. OHS con to subject to a confidence trick] to cuckold. (Nassau) 2. [cf. Vir. co'n yo bum
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  • corn
    /kohn/ n. 1. [Vir. idem (flighfield); cf. Krio finga kon wart on finger KED; OED corn a callus, chiefly on the toes
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  • corkwood
    [OED, W3, DJE different sp.] n. a tree, Annona aquatica: 1835 The woody part of the root of this tree is
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  • cork up
    /kohk op/ [Car.; cf. OED caulk to stop up crevices, cork to stop up a bottle, converging in dial, without postvocalic In]
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  • corkscrew
    [from twisted leaves] n. 1. a plant, Croton sp. (Black) 2. an airplant, Tillandsia juncea: 1972 (Durrell 73). (Eleu.)
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