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corn +‎ cutter

Noun

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corncutter (plural corncutters)

  1. A machine for cutting up stalks of corn for cattle feed.
  2. An implement consisting of a long blade attached to a handle at nearly a right angle, used for cutting down the stalks of Indian corn.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for corncutter”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)