corn-stalk

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

A stalk of corn, particularly the stalk of the maize.--Webster. Mr. Pickering says, "the farmers of New England use this term, and more frequently the simple term stalks, to denote the upper part of the stalks of Indian corn (above the ear), which is cut off while green, and then dried to make fodder for their cattle."--Vocabulary.

Related Words