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winter corn
[Cf. Du. winterkoren, G. winterkorn.]
Corn sown in winter, or in autumn and remaining in the ground through the winter.
c1450Godstow Reg. 351 On halfe acre of wyntur corne. 1523–34Fitzherb. Husb. §8 If thou sowe it with winter⁓corne, as whete or ry. 1577Googe Heresbach's Husb. i. 25 b, The Winter Corne when it is sowed before Winter, appeareth aboue the ground somtimes within a seuennight after. 1608Willet Hexapla Exod. 113 Our wheate and rie, which wee call winter corne. 1707Mortimer Husb. 60 These Lands are very subject to worms which destroys both the Corn and the Grass very much, especially the Winter-corn. 1764Museum Rust. IV. 7 If it is to be winter corn, one ploughing more, which is the third only, makes it in fine order for the seed.
attrib. and Comb.a1450Mankind 54 in Macro Plays 3 A wyntur corn-threscher. 1611in G. A. Carthew Hund. Launditch iii. (1879) 26 In the tyme of wyntercorne harvest. |