corn

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   something sentimental or trite

   that movie was pure corn

2. 2
   verb

   to preserve with salt

   corned beef

3. 3
   verb

   to feed cattle with maize

   I corned the herd of cows first thing in the morning.

4. 4
   noun

   Any cereal plant (or its grain) that is the main crop or staple of a country or region.

   And hee ſaid, Beholde, I haue heard that there is corne in Egypt: get you downe thither and buy for vs from thence, that we may liue, and not die.

5. 5
   noun

   Maize, a grain crop of the species Zea mays.

   The planting or sowing of maize, exclusively called corn, was just accomplished on the Town Hill, when I reached it.

6. 6
   noun

   A grain or seed, especially of a cereal crop.

   He paid her the nominal fee of two corns of barley.

7. 7
   noun

   A small, hard particle.

   The least corn of sand is not so small to the whole earth, as man is to the heaven:[…]

8. 8
   noun

   Bullets, ammunition, and charge and discharge of firearms.

   R.I.P Scumpy ah you did say Popcaan And if a boy diss we clap corn.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English corn, from Old English corn, from Proto-West Germanic *korn, from Proto-Germanic *kurną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm (“grain; worn-down”), from *ǵerh₂- (“grow old, mature”). Cognate with Dutch koren, German Low German Koorn, German Korn, Danish korn, Norwegian Bokmål korn, Norwegian Nynorsk korn and Swedish korn; see also Albanian grurë, Russian зерно́ (zernó), Czech zrno, Latin grānum and Lithuanian žirnis. Doublet of grain, gram, granum, and grao. The sense maize (Zea mays) is an ellipsis of Indian corn that developed in 18th century North America.