corn-cracker
Noun
A lower-class white person in the Southern United States.
Usage- US usage
- Dated
- Derogatory
- mildly
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Our summons was answered by its owner, a well-to-do, substantial, middle-aged planter, wearing the ordinary homespun of the district, but evidently of a station in life much above the common "corn-crackers" I had seen at the country meeting-house.
An agricultural machine for cracking corn kernels.
Usage- US usage
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A subscriber at Burnsville inquires for a corn cracker which he can work by attaching it to Warren's horse power. There is a corn cracker made here, but it is not a very superior machine.
Word forms
corn-crackerscorn crackercorncracker