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corncrib

corncrib

1 8.0
A small building with open wooden sides for storing and drying ears of corn
  • noun
  • /ˈkɔrnˌkrɪb/
  • US
translation icon : cobertizo de maíz
  • The children played hide and seek around the old corncrib on their grandparents' farm.
  • corncrib house

Examples

  • They were concerned about the corncrib.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • They don't eat people's gardens, don't nest in the corncribs.

  • The corncrib will do fine.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • The corncrib was full to overflowing.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • Later, as the family of Hezikiah Hendrick grew, our town founder built a spring house, barn, and corncrib on his forty-acre ridge property.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • She had loved that farm and often told Burl stories about growing up there, like the time she found the little pink baby mice in the corncrib and brought them into the house on a napkin.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • So the youngest boy waited until none of the other boys were watching to go play in the shelled corn bin while it was being emptied into a large wagon beneath it in the corncrib alley.

    Fiction book (2001)
  • Outbuildings—smokehouse, can house, springhouse, henhouse, corncrib—bordered a space of packed earth like a courtyard.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • Farmers store harvested corn in a corncrib to keep it dry and safe.

  • After the harvest, the corncrib was filled to the brim with ears of corn.

Surface Forms

corncrib singular
corncribs plural

Morphology

corncrib = corn + crib (transparent) = corn + crib

The meaning is directly the combination of 'corn' + 'crib' (a bin for corn), which is obvious to learners familiar with both nouns.

Etymology

The word corncrib comes from corn 'grain', which in older English meant any grain, and crib 'a box for animal feed', so a corncrib is literally a box for keeping and drying ears of corn on a farm.