sod cornn.
North American (western).
1. Corn or maize planted in ploughed up grassland.
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berimancorn1359
millet?a1425
rye1608
turnip-oatsc1800
turnip-wheat1808
rabi1827
sod corn1835
1835 P. Shirreff Tour xxiv. 248 Indian corn is dropped into every third furrow..and covered with the next cut turf. This crop receives no farther cultivation of any kind, is termed sod corn, and said to yield fifty bushels per acre.
1838 Bytown (Ottawa) Gaz. 19 Sept. 1/3 The sod corn does not make up more than half a crop, and is..stacked for fodder stock.
1867 Rep. Iowa Agric. Soc. (1868) 162 Our late crops, such as sod-corn, were entirely destroyed by grasshoppers.
1886 Leslie's Pop. Monthly Oct. 503/1 Here are..scattered fields of sod corn.
1913 W. Cather O Pioneers! i. ii. 27 Try to break a little more land every year; sod corn is good for fodder.
1940 L. I. Wilder Long Winter iii. 29 He cut and shocked the sod corn.
2. Whisky made from sod corn. In full, sod-corn whisky.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > whisky > [noun] > other whiskies
peat-reek1792
Monongahela1805
rye?1808
corn1820
small-still (whisky)1822
bald-face1840
corn-whiskey1843
raw1844
Bourbon1846
sod corn1857
valley tan1860
straight1862
forty-rod whisky1863
rock and rye1878
sour-mash1885
grain-whisky1887
forty rod lightning1889
Suntory1942
Wild Turkey1949
mash1961
pot still1994
1857 E. F. Beadle Diary 2 Aug. (1923) 73 Found the family enjoying themselves over their ‘Sod corn whiskey’.
1878 J. H. Beadle Western Wilds xii. 183 Chew's store..was the only place that sold bourbon—tothers only sod corn.
1927 K. Eubank Horse & Buggy Days 94 They..ate their dinners,..munching cheese,..which helped along on its onward course by a tumbler or so of sod corn, made in a moonshine still especially for the occasion.
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