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- noun
land used for or suitable for the growing ofcorn
Etymologies
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Examples
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On the further side of a large, shining, yellow stretch of cornland lay a high purple belt of forest which always figured in my eyes as a distant, mysterious region behind which either the world ended or an uninhabited waste began.
Childhood 2003
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To cornland, when the green sheath teems with grain.
Agamemnon 2002
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To cornland, when the green sheath teems with grain.
Agamemnon 2002
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Before my time, a dead king was dug into the cornland every year.
The Bull From The Sea Renault, Mary 1962
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The word strictly means cornland (bere, or barley).
Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter James Conway Walter
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It was towards the end of June, and our way led through the granary of France, with its long green reaches of meadow and rich cornland.
Orrain A Romance S. Levett-Yeats
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Also there was a wide cornland and some men were reaping with sharp hooks the stalks which bended with the weight of the cars -- as if they were reaping Demeter's grain: others were binding the sheaves with bands and were spreading the threshing floor.
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Through river-valleys and cornland farms, sweeping away her best.
Poems Teachers Ask For Selected by readers of "Normal Instructor-Primary Plans" Various
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Hereabout it is flat and fertile, with lavish, eye-fatiguing levels of cornland stretching away to Insterburg and beyond to
The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915 Various
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He was born at Sauk Centre, a place of about two or three thousand inhabitants in the great cornland of
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