corne

Noun

corn (usually uncountable, plural corns)

1. (Commonwealth, usually, but not Australia or New Zealand) 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.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 42:2, column 2

   Synonyms:

   cereal, grain

2. (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, US, usually) 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.1809, Edward Augustus Kendall, Travels Through the Northern Parts of the United States

   Synonyms:

   Indian corn

3. (usually) A single seed of a food crop, especially a cereal grass crop.
   • He paid her the nominal fee of two corns of barley.

   Synonyms:

   grain

4. (usually) A small, hard particle.
   • The least corn of sand is not so small to the whole earth, as man is to the heaven:[…]1612–1626, Joseph Hall, “[Contemplations upon the Principal Passages in the Holy Story. Book I.] Of Man.”, in Josiah Pratt, editor, The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Hall, D.D....
5. (usually) A type of granular snow formed by repeated melting and refreezing, often in mountain spring conditions.

   Synonyms:

   corn snow

6. (Jamaica, Multicultural-London-English, slang, usually) 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.2014 June 9, Andrae Hugh Sutherland respectively Popcaan of Popcaan, “Where We Come From” (track 13), in Where We Come From

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