to corn
- verb
- /kɔrn/
- US
- They bit corn off the cob in a yard full of old trees: holly, sycamore, oak, pine.
Examples
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Farmers often corn their cattle to ensure they gain weight more quickly.
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To improve the quality of the beef, ranchers typically corn their livestock during the winter months.
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But you know, it's always better to be safe than sorry, as well as just utilizing corn as a common feed.
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Instead of having the cows just fatten themselves off normally on grass, which takes a lot longer, they speed up the process by feeding them corn and soy meal.
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He decided to corn the cows before the cold weather set in for better nutrition.
Idioms
Compounds
- US
A sweet thick liquid made from corn that you use to make food sweeter and thicker
- US
A small triangular sweet with yellow, orange, and white layers often eaten at Halloween
A type of corn with sweet, tender kernels that people eat as a vegetable when young
- US
A gentle reddish-orange snake from the southeastern United States often found on farms and kept as a pet
- UK
Snow made of small loose grains after melting in daytime and freezing again at night
- US
A small fried cake of batter and bits of corn served hot as a snack or side dish
- Specialized
A coarse food for farm animals like cattle made from parts left after making corn products
An insect, usually a moth or its caterpillar, that eats holes in corn stems and harms the crop
- US
An alcoholic drink made mostly from corn, traditionally from the United States
- Offensive
A strong, healthy-looking person from the countryside who seems a bit naive
A small white wildflower with a yellow center that grows in cornfields and spreads quickly
- UK
A plant with bright purple, trumpet-shaped flowers and poisonous seeds that grows in grain fields and roadsides
- US
A traditional dance by some Native American people to ask for rain and a good corn harvest
- South African
A South African plant with long grasslike leaves and bright lily-like flowers
- UK
A European wildflower with reddish-purple trumpet-shaped flowers and poisonous seeds
- UK
A bright red wild flower that grows in fields of grain in Europe and that people often plant in gardens
A small annual plant with tiny blue flowers that grows in open ground like roadsides
- UK
A small plant with thin leaves and white star-shaped flowers that grows in fields
- UK
A small weed with leaves that grow around the stem and white flowers in farm fields
- Archaic
A small plant like grass with pale flowers and a bitter root used to treat stomach problems
- Indian
A grain plant called sorghum that people grow for food in dry regions of North Africa and Asia
A small moth whose young caterpillars make holes in corn stems and damage crops
- Specialized
A type of corn with hard outer kernels and a soft inside used for food or decoration
A small woodland plant with creamy white flowers and yellow roots like corn kernels
How Nourished
Surface Forms
Etymology
To corn animals means to feed them with 'grain', and this verb simply comes from the noun corn meaning the grain used as food for livestock.