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单词 corn-ground
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corn-groundn.

Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcorn-ground.
archaic.
A piece of land used for growing corn; corn-land.
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cornlanda1387
cornfield?1523
corn-ground1548
granary1570
milpa1648
kerning-ground1732
seeds1794
walk1797
corn belt1882
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. xxxvv The kyng..lodged within .iii. myles of the cytie, on a corne grounde by the ryuer.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 179 Two Pieces of Corn-Ground.
1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iii. iv. 55 Vineyards, Corn-grounds and Meadows.
1760 G. Washington Diaries I. 160 [I] find..not half a crop, especially of Corn Ground, prepared.
1886 Z. F. Smith Hist. Kentucky 367 Uncle Ben..plowed the corn-ground.
1954 M. Beresford Lost Villages Eng. vii. 246 Sheer excellence of corn-ground.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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