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Cornstalk   /kˈɔrnstˌɔk/   Listen
Cornstalk

noun
1.
The stalk of a corn plant.  Synonym: corn stalk.






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"Cornstalk" Quotes from Famous Books



... Iroquois to peace. With the help of David Zeisberger, the Moravian missionary, and White Eyes, a Delaware chief, he and Dunmore had won over the Delaware warriors. In the Cherokee councils, Oconostota demanded that the treaty of peace signed in 1761 be kept. The Shawanoes, however, led by Cornstalk, were implacable; and they had as allies the Ottawas and Mingos, who had entered ...
— Pioneers of the Old Southwest - A Chronicle of the Dark and Bloody Ground • Constance Lindsay Skinner

... was a tall, lanky, large-handed, slab-sided cornstalk, about thirty-five years of age, with a huge red beard that nearly covered his face, and a brick-dust complexion variegated with large freckles. His legs were long and straight; he wore tight-fitting white moleskin trousers, ...
— An Outback Marriage • Andrew Barton Paterson



Words linked to "Cornstalk" :   stem, Zea mays, stalk, Indian corn, corn, maize



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