corn-cracker

See also: corncracker and corn cracker

English

corn-cracker (plural corn-crackers)

(US, archaic, mildly derogatory) A lower-class white person in the southern US.
- 1862, James R. Gilmore, chapter 12, in Among the Pines, or, South in Secession Time:
  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.
(US, archaic) An agricultural machine for removing the shells from corn.
- 1847 August, The Prairie Farmer, Volumes 6-8, "Editor's Table", p. 261 (Google books):
  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.

单词	corn-cracker
释义	corn-cracker See also: corncracker and corn cracker English Alternative forms corn cracker, corncracker Noun corn-cracker (plural corn-crackers) (US, archaic, mildly derogatory) A lower-class white person in the southern US. 1862, James R. Gilmore, chapter 12, in Among the Pines, or, South in Secession Time: 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. (US, archaic) An agricultural machine for removing the shells from corn. 1847 August, The Prairie Farmer, Volumes 6-8, "Editor's Table", p. 261 (Google books): 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. See also Corn-cracker State
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