corn-cracker

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A lower-class white person in the Southern United States. US,dated,derogatory,mildly
    — Our summons was answered by its owner, a well-to-do, substantial, middle-aged planter, wearing the ordinary homespun of the district, but evidently of a station in life much above the common "corn-crackers" I had seen at the country meeting-house.
  2. An agricultural machine for cracking corn kernels. US,dated
    — A subscriber at Burnsville inquires for a corn cracker which he can work by attaching it to Warren's horse power. There is a corn cracker made here, but it is not a very superior machine.

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corn-crackers plural corn cracker alternative corncracker alternative

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