Definition of Cornacre

1. the sub-letting of farmland [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cornacre

corn snow
corn speedwell
corn spurrey
corn spurry
corn starch
corn starches
corn sugar
corn sugars
corn syrup
corn syrups
corn tash
corn thistle
corn thistles
corn whiskey
corn whisky
cornacre (current term)
cornacres
cornage
cornages
cornamute
cornamutes
cornball
cornbind
cornbraid
cornbraided
cornbraiding
cornbraids
cornbrash
cornbread

Literary usage of Cornacre

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Documentary History of the American Revolution: Consisting of Letters and by Robert Wilson Gibbes (1857)
"I cannot help saying, that if Williamson * WH Drayton was at Mr. Salvador's plantation, called cornacre, on the 28th of June, 1776, as appears by a let'er ..."

2. Revolutionary Reader: Reminiscences and Indian Legends by Sophie Lee Foster (1913)
"15 Continentals 16 Conway, General 74 Cook, Mrs. Mary 344 Copeland, Edna Arnold. - .300 Copely, John S 84 Cornwallis, Lord - .53, 75, 168 cornacre or ..."

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