What is "corncrib"

Usage examples of "corncrib".

He passed a stable with a cattle pen beside it, jumped over a tiny stream, then went by a corncrib and a woodpile.

He wrinkled his nose at the smell of the pigpen by the corncrib, but beyond it stood the farmhouse, in the middle of a large, irregular yard where chickens and turkeys scratched.

I shook my head wearily, his failed daughter, his fey child, who had left her shoes in a corncrib to go dancing with the night.

He got to his feet and urinated behind a corncrib, then realized he was not alone.

The corncrib was like a little house, raised well above the ground on stilts, with a narrow ladder leading up to it.

Came down on a family and looted their farm at grey dawn, stole every animal they could find and every bit of portable food they could carry, and set fire to the corncrib in parting.

Ada worked awhile with the fork to draw the brush together, and when she was done the pile was big as the corncrib and the air was full of the sere odor of cut and withered foliage.

Caldonia might expect for each crop, what was fed to the slaves for dinner and supper, the number of pails of milk from each cow, how long it took to put up a new corncrib to replace the one a sleepwalking mule destroyed.

I glance at the corncrib as I pass it and hope that Alice did not help herself to a meal for Crystal.

I tuck my shirt in my jeans and, combing my hair with a teasel-weed head I found near the corncrib, I walk up the steps to the house.

Here, at one time, more than a century ago, his ancestor had built a homestead - a house, a barn, a chicken house, a stable, a granary, a corncrib, and perhaps other buildings, had settled down as a farmer, a soldier returned from the wars, had lived here for a term of years and then had left.

Damn fat pig, Jeremiah thought as he leaned against the corncrib at a safe distance from the animal.

The pig reared back on its hind legs, screaming, as he approached, but began gobbling the corn as soon as the boy moved back toward the corncrib, its eyes frenzied and wide.

The ones who were an inconvenient distance away for raiding corncribs had gotten captives to show them how to grow their own.

Our rat dogs were kept for ratting and taken on regular patrols of the corncribs and grain barns.