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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A pipe with a bowl made of a dried hollowed corncob.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a pipe{3} for smoking tobacco with a bowl made from a corncob.
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hernesheir commented on the word corncob pipe
A quote from the late Aureal Theophilus Cross, eminent paleopalynologist and professor of paleobotany at Michigan State University, describing a youthful summer in the coalfields of the Midwestern US in 1942, when his fieldwork colleagues prevailed upon him to purchase a corncob pipe and try it out: "That thing burned like a blast furnace!" - from my personal notes and recollections of his keynote address at a Midwest Paleobotanical Colloquium (MPC) in the late 1990's.
January 26, 2010
reesetee commented on the word corncob pipe
This phrase always brings "Frosty the Snowman" to mind, no matter how hard I resist.
January 27, 2010