Crossword clues for cornstalk
cornstalk
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cornstalk \Corn"stalk`\ (-st[add]k`), n. A stalk of Indian corn.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context botany English) The tough, fibrous stalk of a corn (maize) plant, often ground for silage after harvest. 2 (context botany English) A single specimen of a corn plant once past the seedling stage and which may, at maturity, bear multiple ears of corn. 3 (context Australia slang obsolete English) A non-indigenous person born in Australia. (reference-book last = Marshall first = Peter authorlink = coauthors = title = The Cambridge Illustrated History of the British Empire publisher = Cambridge University Press date = 2001 location = Cambridge pages = 272 url = http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521002540 doi = id = isbn = 978-0521002547 ) A few decades earlier he[a non-indigenous person of Australian birth] would have been nicknamed a ‘cornstalk’, a sarcastic reference to the way in which Australian children, like colonial wheat, grew fast and gangly; but labels could change with great rapidity, and by 1882 ‘cornstalk’ had become a caustic term for the New South Welsh. 4 (context Australia slang pejorative English) a non-indigenous native of New South Wales.
Wikipedia
Cornstalk (Shawnee: Hokoleskwa) (ca. 1720 – November 10, 1777) was a prominent leader of the Shawnee nation just prior to the American Revolution (1775-1783). His name, Hokoleskwa, translates loosely into "stalk of corn" in English, and is spelled Colesqua in some accounts. He was also known as Keigh-tugh-qua and Wynepuechsika.
Cornstalk opposed European settlement west of the Ohio River in his youth, but he later became an advocate for peace after the Battle of Point Pleasant (1774). His murder by American militiamen at Fort Randolph during a diplomatic visit in November 1777 outraged both American Indians and Virginians.
Usage examples of "cornstalk".
Like stones falling into water, the Alabamians crouched way down, where they were hidden by the cornstalks.
And the suspicion of past failure being upon these sons of the salt sea, they were not beloved or admired by the Croweaters and Cornstalks and Gumsuckers, who, with an ex--Mississippian, bossed the river-craft fourteen to twenty years ago.
Although a blustery wind sent moon-silvered ripples across the ink-dark pond and rattled the nearby cornstalks, the sails were still.
Beyond the fence, dead cornstalks bristled as repulsively as the spiny legs and plated torsos of praying mantises.
The Rebels now saw that we were not to be run over like a field of cornstalks, and they fell back to devise further tactics, giving us a breathing spell to get ourselves in shape for defense.
Dry as the cornstalks burned by frost in the garden outside my cabin door.
When that whole sky wheeled and burst, the woods swept clean up the wagon road and the cornstalks glittering stalks unsheathed behind the rail fence, where the stupid face of that chapel stared down across that creek at the house with its windows blazing with the sun as though it were afire.
He stood there, looking toward town, looking toward the field across the road where ash-blond cornstalks stood unharvested, row upon row, in testament to the wet fall and early winter.
Diesel engines pig-grunted as the smooth low-slung shapes of the tanks and tank-destroyers crashed through brush and twelve-foot high cornstalks, past the flaming shards of a farmhouse and barns.
This pale, helpless creature, who could not chip an arrowhead or build a proper fire or even take five steps off a trail without getting lost—he cut those Catawbas down like rotten cornstalks!
Kennedy flushed, following in silence while the musician annotated his triumph by a series of gay little harmonics, and young Hopeful, trudging in the rear, executed a soundless fantasia on the cornstalk fiddle with great brilliancy of technique.
For even as he passed some corn milpas flattened by the recent storm, he spied others where, from some natural whim, the green young cornstalks still stood proud in the morning sun.
The latter was tickled pink to find out how to make big bucks by stomping down a few cornstalks and standing aside to watch the gawkers stream through his gate.
When Halloween came each year my Aunt Neva piled me and my brother into her old tin lizzie to motor out into October Country to gather cornstalks and field pumpkins.