What is "corncob"

Usage examples of "corncob".

The smells of the Lacandon jungle night were coming to the fore, among them the sharp tang of allspice and pine straw, and another odor that made him think of burnt corncobs.

Uncle Gavin sat on the back of his neck practically, his legs crossed on the desk, chewing the bit of his corncob pipe and spinning and unspinning around his finger his watch chain weighted with the Phi Beta Kappa key he got at Harvard.

The pipe he smoked was a corncob, black, with a stink like a civet cat.

Sitting in the cottonseed-hulls, in the litter of gnawed corncobs, Temple lifted her head suddenly toward the trap at the top of the ladder.

To Temple, sitting in the cottonseed-hulls and the corncobs, the sound was no louder than the striking of a match: a short, minor sound shutting down upon thp scene, the instant, with a profound finality, completely isolating it, and she sat there, her legs straight before her, her hands limp and palm-up on her lap, looking at Popeye's tight back and the ridges of his coat across the shoulders as he leaned out the SANCTUARY 59 door, the pistol behind him, against his flank, wisping thinly along his leg.

So next year, they would have a good crop to harvest which would ensure they had enough corncobs to operate year around.

The Knapps were planting extra corn next year just for supplying corncobs and some money as part of the start up capital for the new company.

And John Cozzano's factory had been throwing away corncobs by the hundreds of tons ever since it had gone into production.

The heap of corncobs that rose from the prairie outside of Tuscola had now become the highest point in several counties and could be seen from twenty miles away, especially whenever pranksters set fire to it (photo).

Then they put the ashes from corncobs into the water and use it to scour dirty clothes.

Added to the collection were different kinds of feathers, some dried-out corncobs with multicolored kernels, and a couple of fragile-looking, almost transparent snake-skins.

The day-to-day running of the ship was left to her daughter, Aguilar, who combined the offices of bosun and purser, and Captain Lorquital habitually sat in a sling chair by the helm, puffing a corncob pipe, stately in a billowing long skirt and leather tabard, her well-muscled arms bare, a red handkerchief knotted under her pendulous jowls.

He was smoking a corncob pipe, which had filled the hut with a tarry smell.

He has jammed a wooden match down into the bowl of a corncob pipe and is puffing away futilely.

An old colored woman clad in a faded blue Mother Hubbard with darker blue patches sat in a rocking chair by a coal-burning kitchen stove, darning a threadbare man's woolen sock on a wooden egg, and smoking a corncob pipe.